Chapter 1Starting Simple

If you’ve ever thought, “There should be an app for that” and wondered who could build it for you, I have good news. We found someone. It’s you.

Web applications can be powerful, efficient, and scalable, but they don’t need to be complicated. Their simplicity is one of their great strengths, and you can use that strength to realize your own ideas and build your own solutions. Once you understand how all the pieces fit together, you’ll be able to create the apps you want to see in the world.

This book is a practical tutorial that will demonstrate a serverless approach to building web applications. Using this approach, you can ignore most of the operational concerns and costs that come from running your own servers. You’ll ...

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