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Building Serverless Web Applications

You're reading from Building Serverless Web Applications

Product type Book

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787126473

Pages 354 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Diego Zanon

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Understanding the Serverless Model

2. Getting Started with AWS

3. Using the Serverless Framework

4. Hosting the Website

5. Building the Frontend

6. Developing the Backend

7. Managing a Serverless Database

8. Securing the Serverless Application

9. Handling Serverless Notifications

10. Testing, Deploying, and Monitoring

Chapter 9. Handling Serverless Notifications

Push notifications are a common use case for modern applications. They are important not just for mobile devices, but also for web applications. When you are browsing your Facebook timeline and receive a notification that a friend has commented on one of your photos, this is a push notification. In this chapter, you will learn how to implement this feature in a serverless solution.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

Implementing serverless notifications using AWS IoT
Public and private notifications

By the end of this chapter, you'll have learned how to handle real-time notifications in a serverless application.

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Authors (1)

Diego Zanon

Diego Zanon is a full-stack developer for both JavaScript and .NET applications. He is passionate about understanding and trying new technologies and frameworks, especially those designed to solve scalability problems. In his free time, he likes to blog and contribute to GitHub and Stack Overflow. Diego is a computer engineer and has worked on a wide range of projects, from industrial systems to e-commerce websites, for customers around the world, including the USA, Brazil, Netherlands, and Germany.

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