Serverless.md

⚙️ Challenge 1: Choose Your Own Serverless Adventure

The first challenge in this course provides a hands-on, step-by-step walkthrough of creating a new Serverless service using Express.js.

Table of Contents

• Description
• Deliverables
• Credits

Description

In this challenge, you'll discover how to…

1. Deploy a simple API endpoint
2. Add a DynamoDB table and two endpoints to create and retrieve a User object
3. Set up path-specific routing for more granular metrics and monitoring
4. Configure your environment for local development for a faster development experience.

Deliverables

• OPTION 1: Complete Deploy a REST API using Serverless, Express and Node.js as written (solo or pair project)
• OPTION 2: Complete Deploy a REST API using Serverless, Express and Node.js but change Users to an entity of your choosing. For example, Pokemon, Cars, or Products (solo or pair project)
• OPTION 3: Take an existing Node and Express project and convert it to use the Serverless framework. Use Converting an existing Express application to guide you! (up to 3 per team)

When done, submit the URL to your deployed API on Gradescope.

Credits

• Description text written by Alex DeBrie at the beginning of Deploy a REST API using Serverless, Express and Node.js. It is presented here for educational purposes only.