AWS API Gateway Explained With Real Web App - React Lambda

❗️ This video explains how to use API Gateway by looking at a real-life example of my app GrubGuide, which uses it to connect a React front end to a Lambda Function.

🧠 If you have specific questions, drop them in the comments and I’ll do my best to get back to you quickly.

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[michaelmcmasters]

I love the subscribe animation you have at the end of your videos. The zooming out. Really smooth.

[liamlindy]

Hey I love your videos but sometimes the background music is way too loud. Maybe consider lowering its volume or not using any at all? Keep up the great work!!!

[arrvind]

Amazing Explanation, Thanks a lot 👍👍👍

[PeachBoiASMR]

Yo thanks for this one man! I am an intern right now and am trying to get up to speed with AWS. You explained API Gateways very well and I loved the live example with your application that you did. I know you're a small channel right now but if you keep posting videos like these you're gonna be huge.

[vaughnsmith]

This is exactly what I needed, thanks!

[mohamadybr]

Thanks! This video helpt me a lot to understand what the AWS API Gateway actually is! I am new to AWS, and I was searching for tutorials to explain this in a simple way. Although I have built some personal APIs and I know how they work, watching some of the tutorials out there made me question everything and felt lost.
The best part of the entirety of this video were these words "connecting your backend to the frontend". It made me realise that it is pretty much like any other API but with some advanced features.

[Dimon]

hi, thank you and what about Api-Gateway for kubernetes api services?

[andresrodriguez-pvtz]

Hi, how can you link this into Amazon connect?

[diddlysquat]

I was literally looking for a video like this online and trying to find articles but this youtube video answered the question I had regarding How AWS gateway and web applications work together. Thank you sir!

But I'm still trying to understand the Why?
Why use gateway and lambda when I could just spin up a node.js server using express and handle the POST call directly on app.js?
Is gateway doing anything different than the scenario I just outlined?
Having a hard time wrapping my head around using gateway as a middleman when it's just one more middleware to handle...

[waiyanleung]

Hi, if I have a frontend react app deployed on EC2, how can I connect it to API Gateway?

[vagamburgo]

you could omit the music, it's anoying.

[adzmobile]

Bro why on earth is there music in background 🤦🏽‍♂️