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You can use Serverless Cloud. See an example project here: https://github.com/serverless/cloud/tree/main/examples/with-nextjs

To show you how easy it is to use Serverless Cloud and Vercel together, let’s setup and deploy our CloudPics example application. It’s a React application built with Next.js that lets you upload photos which are stored in Serverless Storage, resized, and indexed in Serverless Data. The home page is visible to both authenticated and non-authenticated users, and it uses server-side rendering to improve SEO and performance for end users.

This will return a new app url that is completely separate from your personal development instance. Unless you’re testing, we recommend that you use that production stage url in your frontend so that any future changes you make to your api won’t break your app. We will leave the frontend piece as an exercise for you since it’s no different from any other frontend app you’ve worked with. For reference, you can take a look at the docs, and how that might look like in the examples directory.

Putting it all together, we’ve seen how you can easily add signup and login functionality to your app using JSON Web Tokens, and how to verify these tokens to protect your private endpoints. I hope this was a helpful introduction to how authentication works at a high level, and how it fits within Serverless Cloud. For more advanced use cases such as integrating with third party providers like Google, Twitter and Github, you may want to take a look at Passport.js or similar libraries that make it easier to authenticate your users. You can take a look at the complete example application here, and if you ever get stuck, visit our documentation.

In this article, you’ve seen how easy it is to use Serverless Cloud with MongoDB. You’ve learned how to create a Serverless Cloud app, how to create a MongoDB database using MongoDB Atlas, and how to connect your Serverless Cloud app to your MongoDB database securely using Parameters. The complete example app can be found in the examples repo, and more information about Serverless Cloud can be found in the docs. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out on Twitter.

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Serverless App Platforms And Feature Ceilings (Paul Swail, Serverless First) — An interesting topic in the cloud industry today… as cloud services get more complicated, will we see more Platform-as-a-Service abstractions built around them to make them simpler? Serverless Inc clearly thinks so, as they’re building their own Serverless platform now. But Paul notes the biggest downside to these platforms, what if you need to “break out”? What if you need more functionality than these services provide? I also recently put out a short Twitter thread on this same topic.

Since then, the ecosystem has changed. Using the Serverless Framework makes deployment simpler. We released the managed Tracetest App making any serverless-based systems simpler to instrument and test. You can now test public-facing apps with no infra overhead!

We see some great results from using these in conjunction with frameworks such as SST or Serverless, and also some real spaghetti from people who organically proliferate 100’s of functions over time and lose track of how they relate to each other or how to update them safely across time and service. Buyer beware!

When we think about AWS serverless service, the first thing that comes to our mind is Lambda function. Yes, the quickest way to deploy this backend Express JS app to AWS is to deploy it as a Lambda function. The easiest way is using Serverless Framework.

Serverless Framework: https://www.serverless.com/

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In this example, we're using the serverless framework to quickly set up the Lambda function along with an API gateway for the entry point. The lambda function is a simple Koa REST API with a few functional endpoints.

Naturally, there are several options available to declare your cloud resources. The options with the most popularity are the CDK, AWS CloudFormation, SST, Serverless framework, Terraform, and AWS SAM. There are others, but when talking about Infrastructure as Code (IaC), these are the ones you hear about most often.

1 - Serverless + AWS CDK + Lift: An integration that amps up the traditional Serverless Framework with Lift's static frontend construct and CDK's robust infra definition.

It's a bit easier in Python if you use tools like https://www.serverless.com/. I'm not sure if Rust has something similar yet.

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