Summary
Building a full-fledged e-commerce site is a fairly large exercise. In this chapter, the idea was to get you comfortable with the various tools and services involved and lay the groundwork for you to go ahead and build on top of it.
In this chapter, we saw:
- How to go about using the AWS services, namely S3 and DynamoDB. We took advantage of the AWS JS SDK to interact with these services and store data in them.
- We saw how to integrate Facebook and use it with Amazon's Web Identity Federation to authenticate access to the AWS services.
- We stored and retrieved data from databases and uploaded files into S3 using pure JavaScript, which I'm sure is a delight for many frontend developers.
- We saw the problems related to asynchronous calls and saw how to use resolve to ensure that data is preloaded before the route controller function is called.
Like always, there is so much more you can do to further enhance and improve the app that you've built. In case you are looking to build...
