Your first serverless application on Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud is a set of software solutions from Google and its primary components are Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and G Suite. GCP is a suite of cloud computing services that deal with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and Serverless computing. GSuite is a set of business applications including Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive. In this recipe, we will build a simple serverless application on GCP. We will also look at the appropriate managed services in GCP for various serverless use cases.

Getting ready

Following are the prerequisites for this recipe:

1. Node.js and npm installation can be verified with following commands:

node -v
npm -v

2. You need to have a working account in the...