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Our comprehensive tutorials include
- Step-by-step instructions with screenshots for setting up your AWS services
- Build a REST API backend with our Serverless tutorial
- Easy to understand explanations for creating a single-page application with our React.js tutorial
- Over 100 chapters that take you all the way from creating your AWS account to deploying your app on your own domain
- Complete code samples hosted on GitHub for both the backend and frontend
- Up to date info thanks to contributions from the community
- Forums on Discourse to answer your questions
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Recent updates to Serverless Stack
Updated to Create React App v2
Oct 5, 2018: Updated the frontend React app to use Create React App v2.
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This is the best and most comprehensive fullstack serverless tutorial available. Take the time to go through every step, you will learn a ton!
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Rarely do tutorials neatly break things down into bite-sized steps. Even rarer do they clearly explain what each step is for and why it is necessary. The Serverless-Stack is the Holy Grail that does all three.
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Table of Contents
Part I - The Basics
Set up your AWS account
Setting up the Serverless Backend
Building a Serverless REST API
Deploying the Backend
Setting up a React App
Building a React App
Deploying a React app on AWS
Part II - Automation
Introduction
Create a new backend
Infrastructure as Code
Adding a Stripe billing API
Adding unit tests
Automating Serverless deployments
Connect to the new backend
Adding a billing form
Automating React App deployments
Extra Credit
Serverless architecture
Backend
- API Gateway and Lambda Logs
- Debugging Serverless API Issues
- Serverless environment variables
- Stages in Serverless Framework
- Configure multiple AWS profiles
- Customize the Serverless IAM Policy
- Mapping Cognito Identity Id and User Pool Id
- Connect to API Gateway with IAM auth
- Serverless Node.js Starter