Deploy NodeJS Express API as AWS Lambda Function in 15 minutes

❗️Connecting your frontend to your backend is often the hardest concepts to grasp when you start developing web apps. Today we will deploy and NodeJS Express API using AWS Lambda that connects the front and back end in 15 minutes.

🧠 Knowing how to set up an API opens up a world of possibility when developing web applications

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WHO AM I: I'm Dylan, a Cloud Engineer living in Bend, Oregon. I use my background in tech to make videos about technology that enables and grows businesses.

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[JeffLevyForPresident]

Ahem. So. I've been using AWS since 2010. For well over a year now, I've been using Azure Function Apps, specifically w/Node, to great success. Time warp to May 2022. I want to replicate my Azure successes in AWS w/Amplify. I find this video. I have the experience to be able to pick and choose what I want out of the video, but, there are some areas where I really need to pay attention, to learn the AWS concepts I already am familiar with in Azure. This is where the rapid pace of this video breaks down, leaving a confused, jumbled mess of "WHAT NOW?!?!". Dylan, great vids, man. I dig your content. It's good. But a little more production value, if you please. Your exuberance, and comfort with these tools, is leaving some of us in the dust. Slow down. Complete a thought, and a workflow process before going on to the next one. Having to pause, and rewind, and watch a 10 second section over and over again is killing me. Take the time to edit out mistakes. For example, at 13:30~ in this video, I see a Terminal widow with "?Press enter to continue". You never completed that step. What comes after that step is pretty darned important. Instead, you pop straight into your React stuffs. Thanks for the videos, really. It's making for a reasonably smooth transition for me, an experienced dev, but those who aren't familiar with these concepts are likely getting bogged down. I can see as much from other concepts.

[hadriancicero]

I really appreciate you taking the time to create this video. I watched it three times and tried to follow along, but I could not replicate the results.

[deathdefier]

Love you bro, this tutorial completed my understanding of amplify as a frame from a rest perspective. This was exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks

[atom_digital]

Such detailed explanation, good video quality, good thumbnail. I wonder why you haven't blown up. Keep up the grear work man. Thanks for the video

[powderriverfarrier]

For Mac users save yourself from banging your head against a wall and go for the universal install of amplify and avoid the scanning plugin errors.

[khizerhassan]

Thanks! This is my first time doing serverless functions! <3

[ohana]

Lots of knowledge gained! Thanks again for this video Dylan

[assizpereira]

quick question is it possble to run the amplify server locally while testing?

[jimmyrustle]

What diagram creator are you using in the beginning?

[KemaTheCreative]

Hey do you think I can use this to make sure all my products are priced correctly on third party apps.

[manasaakhil]

Awesome video
Great 👍
Thanks

Hi, Please make shorts or 10 min videos on aws major services
Like a brushing up concepts or some sort
This is first time I heard abt amplify and am already confident - thank you for tutorial

[ayomidewilfred]

This is confusing.
Is this not suppose to be an express nodejs deployment, why bringing react?

[hammadumar]

How to use aws-amplify with vanilla js ... without any frontend framework?

[AlexHaxxz]

Awsome video, this really simplified one of my projects. Question though, does the lambda functions inside our amplify project still have a size limit? For instance, I want to use Puppeteer, chromium, and a few other packages inside the lambda function but this would exceed the 50mb limit lambda has. If not or even if you can...what is a work around or another good architecturally sound option when running into situations like this?

[arifali]

Very nice video you are like the ben awad of aws

[Weagle]

Any disadvantage about handling all my Rest API with only one lamba function?

[baskey]

Hi Dylan, thanks for this tutorial. It was explained well and I was able to get up and running! I wanted to know the advantages of using Lamdba over using Express/NodeJS and Nodemon. To me, it seems like a complicated set-up that's not particularly easy to develop as you have to push your Lambda code each time and that's not to mention the issues with environments - although I'm yet to delve deeper into this.

[kasraja]

How we can connect mongodb in this app?

[urdarkside]

Hey man, How long did it take you to learn NodeJS & Express APi?

[bobobobo-kifw]

subbed but can you also do it without amplify?