Develop, Test, and Deploy Serverless Functions with Netlify

Talk Recordings

• You can view this talk at https://www.swyx.io/talks (direct link)

JAMstack 😍 Serverless

• Dramatically reduce the cost of creating APIs
• Your APIs don't have to be serverless, you can also create a stateful microservice

Why Serverless

• Pay per execution pricing
• Never pay for idle servers
• Auto scales for you
• Event driven workflows
• Leverage third party services

What can Functions do

Very basic Functions Tutorial: https://functions-playground.netlify.com/

Featured Use Cases

• Hiding Tokens
• Post Scheduler
• Oauth Flows
• URL shortener - Livestream with Airtable

Scheduled Function Execution

• https://cron-job.org/en/
• IFTTT
• Zapier
• https://cronless.com/
• https://www.setcronjob.com/
• https://cronless.com/
• https://cronnomy.com/
• etc.

Authenticated Functions

• Netlify Identity + Netlify Functions
• Livestream: How to use Gatsby + Netlify Identity + Netlify Functions
• https://github.com/sw-yx/jamstack-hackathon-starter
• https://identity.netlify.com/ (react version)
• JWT vs Sessions vs Paseto
• Okta
• Auth0

Open source list of Function Examples

• https://functions.netlify.com/examples
• https://github.com/netlify/functions

Learn More

• Netlify Functions Workshop https://github.com/DavidWells/netlify-functions-workshop
• Livestream: Building async serverless business logic for your GraphQL API with Hasura and @Netlify
• Flaviocopes: Netlify Lambda Functions Tutorial
• raymondcamden Camden: Adding Serverless Functions to Your Netlify Static Site

Pricing:

• details
• Free: 125k
• Level 1: 2 million

Netlify Functions:Create

• Token-Hider
• GraphQL API
• Fauna GraphQL

more templates here: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-dev-plugin/tree/master/src/functions-templates/js/

Netlify Dev

• https://github.com/netlify/netlify-dev-plugin/
• The difference between Netlify-Lambda vs Netlify Dev
• https://www.netlify.com/products/dev/