Netlify Functions Serverless Workshop

This repo will teach you the core concepts of using serverless functions with Netlify.

Table of Contents

• Using this repo
• Workshop Lessons
  • Core Concepts
  • Use Cases
• Helpful Tools
• Prerequisites & Setup Steps
• Additional Learning materials
  • Netlify
  • Serverless <!-- AUTO-GENERATED-CONTENT:END -->

Using this repo

After following the prerequisite setup steps, work from the lessons folders.

If you get stuck or want to look ahead checkout the lessons-code-complete directory for the completed code.

Repo directory structure:

|── /lessons                 ✅ Work from these files!
|── /lessons-code-complete   💡 Complete lesson answers
|── /_instructor             🙈 Ignore these files. For instructor updates
|── /_scripts                🙈 Ignore these files

Workshop Lessons

Core Concepts

| Lesson | Final Code | |:--------------------------- |:-----| | 1 Hello World
Deploying Your First Endpoint | Complete Code | | 2 Dynamic Content
Rendering Dynamic Content | Complete Code | | 3 Using Environment Variables
Using environment variables | Complete Code | | 4 Using Dependancies
Using NPM dependencies | Complete Code | | 5 Authenication
Protecting Endpoints | Complete Code | | 6 Using A Database
Using a database | Complete Code | | 7 Using Middleware
Using Function middleware | Complete Code | | 8 Using Addons
Deploying Your First Endpoint | Complete Code | | 9 Using Cors
Adding CORS support | Complete Code | | 10 Testing Functions
Testing Serverless functions | Complete Code |

Use Cases

| Lesson | Final Code | |:--------------------------- |:-----| | 1 Rest Api
Using functions for REST APIs | Complete Code | | 2 Graphql
Using functions for GraphQL APIs | Complete Code | | 3 Redirects
Using functions for Dynamic Redirects | Complete Code | | 4 Setting Cookies
Using functions to set cookies | Complete Code | | 5 Fetching Data
Using functions to fetch external API data | Complete Code | | 6 Scraping
Using functions for web scraping | Complete Code | | 7 Sending Emails
Using functions for sending email | Complete Code | | 8 Sending Sms
Using functions for sending text messages | Complete Code | | 9 Event Driven Functions
Using Netlify Event Driven functions | Complete Code | | 10 Payment Processing
Using functions for Payment Processing | Complete Code | | 11 Handling Oauth
Handing OAuth Flows | Complete Code | | 12 Handling File Uploads
Using functions for uploading files | Complete Code | | 13 Returning Dynamic Images
Using functions for returning images | Complete Code |

Helpful Tools

• Postman - desktop app for quick & easy endpoint testing
• NVM - Node version manager

Prerequisites & Setup Steps

1. Install the latest LTS version of Node. How to install Node.

2. Verify you have git on your machine

   Most machines come pre-loaded with git. 🎉

   To verify you have

   git

   , open up your terminal and run:

   which git
   

   This should return a path of where git is installed. If the command returns

   git not found

   , we will need to install git on your machine.

3. Setup a Netlify account. 

   If you don't already have an Netlify account, let's get one setup.

   Click here to setup a free Netlify account

4. Install Netlify CLI

   Open up your terminal and run:

   npm install netlify-cli -g
   

5. Connect the Netlify CLI with your Netlify account. 

   Open up your terminal and run:

   netlify login
   

6. Verify the Netlify CLI works on your machine

   Open up your terminal and run:

   netlify --help
   

   This should return the list of commands from the CLI tool.

Bonus setup:

• Install postman for quick & easy testing of endpoints we deploy
• It's also recommended that you use nvm (node version manager) just in case you need to change versions of node for the workshop.

Additional Learning materials

Netlify

• Function Docs
• Function Examples
• Function Tutorials

Serverless

• Applying the Serverless Mindset to Any Tech Stack
• Serverless Architectural Patterns
• Serverless Microservice Patterns for AWS
• Production-Ready Serverless
• Cloud Native Development Patterns & Best Practices
• JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook
• Serverless framework workshop