Serverless TODO

To implement this project you need to implement a simple TODO application using AWS Lambda and Serverless framework. Search for all the TODO: comments in the code to find the placeholders that you need to implement.

Functionality of the application

This appliation will allow to create/remove/update/get TODO items. Each TODO item can optionally have an attachment image. Each user only has access to TODO items that he/she has created.

Functions to be implemented

To implement this project you need to implement the following functions and configure them in the serverless.yml file:

• Auth - this function should implement a custom authorizer for API Gateway that should be added to all other functions.
• GetTodos - should return all TODOs for a current user.
• CreateTodo - should create a new TODO for a current user. A shape of data send by a client application to this function can be found in the CreateTodoRequest.ts file
• UpdateTodo - should update a TODO item created by a current user. A shape of data send by a client application to this function can be found in the UpdateTodoRequest.ts file
• DeleteTodo - should delete a TODO item created by a current user. Expects an id of a TODO item to remove.
• GenerateUploadUrl - returns a presigned url that can be used to upload an attachment file for a TODO item.

All functions are already connected to appriate events from API gateway

An id of a user can be extracted from a JWT token passed by a client

You also need to add any necessary resources to the resources section of the serverless.yml file such as DynamoDB table and and S3 bucket.

Frontend

The client folder contains a web application that can use the API that should be developed in the project.

To use it please edit the config.ts file in the client folder:

const apiId = '...' API Gateway id
export const apiEndpoint = `https://${apiId}.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev`

export const authConfig = {
  domain: '...',    // Domain from Auth0
  clientId: '...',  // Client id from an Auth0 application
  callbackUrl: 'http://localhost:3000/callback'
}

Best practices

To complete this exercise please follow the best practices from the 6th lesson of this course.

Suggestions

To store TODO items you might want to use a DynamoDB table with local secondary index(es). A create a local secondary index you need to a create a DynamoDB resource like this:

TodosTable:
  Type: AWS::DynamoDB::Table
  Properties:
    AttributeDefinitions:
      - AttributeName: partitionKey
        AttributeType: S
      - AttributeName: sortKey
        AttributeType: S
      - AttributeName: indexKey
        AttributeType: S
    KeySchema:
      - AttributeName: partitionKey
        KeyType: HASH
      - AttributeName: sortKey
        KeyType: RANGE
    BillingMode: PAY_PER_REQUEST
    TableName: ${self:provider.environment.TODOS_TABLE}
    LocalSecondaryIndexes:
      - IndexName: ${self:provider.environment.INDEX_NAME}
        KeySchema:
          - AttributeName: partitionKey
            KeyType: HASH
          - AttributeName: indexKey
            KeyType: RANGE
        Projection:
          ProjectionType: ALL # What attributes will be copied to an index

To query an index you need to use the query() method like:

await this.dynamoDBClient
  .query({
    TableName: 'table-name',
    IndexName: 'index-name',
    KeyConditionExpression: 'paritionKey = :paritionKey',
    ExpressionAttributeValues: {
      ':paritionKey': partitionKeyValue
    }
  })
  .promise()

How to run the application

Backend

To deploy an application run the following commands:

cd backend
npm install
sls deploy -v

Frontend

To run a client application first edit the client/src/config.ts file to set correct parameters. And then run the following commands

cd client
npm install
npm run start

This should start a development server with the React application that will interact with the serverless TODO application.

Postman collection

An alternative way to test your API you can use the Postman collection that contains sample requests. You can find a Postman collection in this project. To import this collection do the following.

Click on the import button:

Click on the "Choose Files":

Select a file to import:

Right click on the imported collection to set variables for the collection:

Provide variables for the collection (similarly to how this was done in the course):