AOT Fellowship Lab

Usage

Prerequisites

1. Download node and npm: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

2. Download Postman: https://www.postman.com/downloads/

3. Download Git https://git-scm.com/downloads

4. Create a github account (if you don't already have one) https://github.com/

5. Go to the project repo: https://github.com/ajohnson10209/AOT-Fellowship and fork the repo (Slide 36).

6. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/your-repo

7. Mac users, Install Java: https://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_install.html

AWS Configuration

1. If not already installed, get the AWS CLI tools following the instructions here pertaining to your OS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
2. Configure you aws account using the instruction here. You will need to create a new key pair if you do not already have one: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html
3. Update the profile setting in the serverless.yml file to "default" if you only have one profile. Otherwise follow the instructions here for creating a named profile https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html

Local development

1. Run the following command in your terminal

$ npm install -g serverless

2. In your terminal, change your directory into the project directory

$ cd AOT-Fellowship

3. Run the following command in your terminal to install all dependencies

$ npm install

4. Set up local DynamoDB

$ sls dynamodb install

5. Start local sever

$ sls offline start

6. Use Postman to call your local server

Deployment

In order to deploy the example, you need to run the following command:

$ serverless deploy

After running deploy, you should see output similar to:

Deploying aot-fellowship-demo to stage dev (us-east-1)

✔ Service deployed to stack aot-fellowship-demo-dev (112s)

functions:
  showtime: aot-fellowship-demo-dev-showtime (1.5 kB)

Invocation

After successful deployment, the url for your api will be in the command line

• example: https://gp1ux2he8d.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/

Use Postman to call your api endpoints

Commiting Code to Github

Once you are finished, you will send your code into your github account

1. Run the following commands in your terminal

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Add a description of your work"
$ git push origin master