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

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