July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
181 pages
3h 53m
English
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Chapter 1. Full Stack Development in the Era of Serverless Computing
People have typically associated cloud computing with backend development and DevOps. However, over the past few years, this has started to change. With the rise of functions as a service (FaaS), combined with powerful abstractions in the form of managed services, cloud providers have lowered the barrier to entry for developers new to cloud computing, and for traditionally frontend developers.
Using modern tools, frameworks, and services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amplify and Firebase (among others), a single developer can leverage their existing skill set and knowledge of a single framework and ecosystem (like JavaScript) to build scalable full stack applications complete with all of the features that would in the past have required teams of highly skilled backend and DevOps engineers to build and maintain.
This book focuses on bridging the gap between frontend and backend development by taking advantage of this new generation of tools and services using the Amplify Framework. Here you’ll learn how to build scalable applications in the cloud directly from your frontend environment using the Amplify Command Line Interface (CLI). You’ll create and interact with various APIs and AWS services, such as authentication using Amazon Cognito, cloud storage using Amazon S3, APIs using Amazon API Gateway and AWS AppSync, and databases using Amazon DynamoDB.
By the final chapter, you will understand how to build real-world ...
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