Learn Angular, Aws and Cypress

You're going to find cloud services being used at nearly any enterprise you work for. So it's important for us developers to at least have a high-level understanding of this infrastructure.

And since AWS has the dominant share of the cloud market, being familiar with it is incredibly valuable and opens a lot of doors.

But gaining that familiarity isn't easy. Just browsing through the list of 200+ services is overwhelming. 

Getting started with learning AWS usually involves having a dozen or more open tabs and the feeling that you're going down a rabbit hole that never ends.  

This course is an alternative to that stress. It has been structured like a boat tour on a river of knowledge, linearly guiding you through the core of AWS. 

By the end of this course, you will be confidently spinning up servers, creating relational databases, storing static assets, and writing serverless functions with confidence. 

So, whether you need to learn AWS for your current job or are looking to earn your cloud practitioner certification, start watching this course and gain the skills you need today.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a powerful expansive cloud infrastructure platform for building modern web applications.

AWS provides services for data, presentation, authentication, security, video encoding, and much more. Offering over 175 fully-featured services from data centers globally, AWS powers a large percentage of the internet.

Cloud Infrastructure Fundamentals with AWS

In this course, we'll build a video course platform using the AWS Amplify Admin UI. 

The Admin UI provides simple yet powerful tools to model database tables, add authentication and authorization, and manage app content, users, and groups. It also offers the ability to manage the application users and content. 

The AWS Amplify Admin UI focuses on data types rather than backend infrastructure. 

All the backend resources generate infrastructure as code (IaC) templates that can be committed in the team repository and integrated with AWS Amplify continuous deployment workflow to manage the different environments.

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of React Hooks.

React is one of the web’s most popular frameworks for building JavaScript applications. 

If you know what you’re doing, React can drastically simplify how you build, use, and maintain code.

Whether you’re a React newbie or you’re ready for advanced techniques, you can level-up with egghead. Explore our in-depth courses, lessons, and community resources to build more powerful applications and crack open your career.

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Get Started with the AWS Amplify Admin UI

Amazon AWS is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, but it can also be daunting to learn thanks to the alphabet soup of service acronyms.

Once you've figured out which subset of services to use, you've got a lot of clicking around to do in order to get things configured.

Not anymore!

With the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), you are able to configure AWS services from your terminal & editor.

Even better, you can do your configuration, frontend, and backend all with the same language. 

In this course, Tomasz Łakomy will guide you through using TypeScript to complete the lifecycle of an application powered by AWS CDK. You'll see how to start a project, develop it locally, deploy it globally, then tear it all down when you're done.

The services & development approach Tomasz demonstrates in this course are used by countless companies around the world. 

Is yours next?

Build an App with the AWS Cloud Development Kit

Angular is a robust, powerful framework for building applications at scale, but it can be really intimidating to beginners! This collection by [JavaScript teacher Sam Julien](http://www.samjulien.com/) is here to help you learn Angular in bite-sized chunks. 

*Note from Sam: these lessons are loosely related but are not meant to necessarily be followed in order from start to finish. I've provided embedded code and links to GitHub where applicable, though, so you can always have access to the finished code for the lesson.*

Angular is a development platform for creating applications using modern web standards. Angular includes a wealth of essential features such as mobile gestures, animations, filtering, routing, data binding, security, internationalization, and beautiful UI components. It's extremely modular, lightweight, and easy to learn.

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Angular Basics

Imagine the following.

You join a new project and after getting access to the repo you notice that there's no tests.

You decide to ask the team whether they are in different repo or something and unfortunately the answer is:

>We don't have any tests, we didn't have the time.

😐

In this collection we're going to learn how to add e2e tests with cypress.io to an existing React app in order to do two things:

- 🌟 Ensure that our app currently works as intended
- 🌟 Allow us to add features to it with a technique called "Cypress Driven Development" 

In less than 20 minutes we're going to go through:

- ⚡️Adding cypress.io setup to an existing project
- ⚡️Testing search functionality with `data-cy` properties
- ⚡️Using "Cypress Driven Development" to add a new feature to an app
- ⚡️Use Cypress UI to debug an API response
- ⚡️How to use `cy.only` and `cy.skip` in order for us to build our e2e test suite faster

and much more!

Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

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Add e2e tests with cypress to a React application

We generally tend to avoid paying for things unless we actually need them, and the same goes for AWS

When using a cloud provider like AWS sometimes an unexpected charge may occur and we'd like to understand what are we being charged for and how to be notified whenever an unexpected charge occurs (especially when we're trying to stay within a free tier).

In this quick (4 minutes, 2 lessons) collection we're going to learn how to:

- Review the AWS Billing & Cost Management Dashboard
- Set up a billing alarm to be notified whenever our bill is larger than $5
- Review the AWS bill to understand how much are we going to pay this month and why

Use AWS Billing & Cost Management Dashboard to keep your AWS bill to minimum

One of the most important — but most ignored — practices for web developers is performing end-to-end testing on applications before they go live into production. You know: making sure they work like they’re supposed to. But testing can be tedious, and definitely not fun.

In this course, Brett Cassette will show you how you can test all layers of your application stack, simultaneously, with Cypress. When you use Cypress, it’s like having a robot that uses your app the way a real user would. Cypress reports if things work the way you designed them to — and if they don’t — every step of the way. And it’s fun.

After completing this course, you’ll be ready to apply the same E2E testing principles to your own applications. Stop leaning on your QA department (if it exists) to stress-test your application, and ship your app knowing it’s ready. 


Test Production Ready Apps with Cypress

**View and Contribute to the [Community Notes](https://github.com/eggheadio-projects/learn-aws-dynamodb-from-scratch)!**

Learn AWS DynamoDB from scratch

This collection of lessons will give you some practical tips and tricks to create faster and more reliable Angular applications. They are highly inspired by the content published on [web.dev/angular](https://web.dev/angular) by [Minko Gechev](https://twitter.com/mgechev) and [Stephen Fluin](https://twitter.com/stephenfluin).

**What you'll learn here is how to..**

- improve an app's TTI via route-level code splitting and lazy loading
- implement a loading indicator for lazy loaded routes
- improve performance via preloading all lazy modules 
- implement a custom preloading strategy
- preload lazy loaded modules with the Angular CLI
- optimize Angular's Change Detection
- implement virtual scrolling for large lists with the Angular CDK
- add client-side precaching with Angular and service workers

That said, have fun 🚀

Build Performant and Progressive Angular Applications

This collection includes introductory level material for AWS DynamoDB. We cover what DynamoDB is, when you'd use it, and the vocabulary you'll need to understand documentation and talks in the ecosystem.

You'll come out of this playlist with the ability to understand what people mean when they say DynamoDB and the base you need to get started yourself.

**View and contribute to the [Community Notes!](https://github.com/eggheadio-projects/intro-to-dynamodb)**

Intro to DynamoDB

Building larger serverless applications can be tricky - creating many lambda functions as well as other resources such as DynamoDB tables, S3 buckets, API Gateways using AWS Console takes quite a lot of time. Not to mention other problems such as redeploying the app to a different region, reviewing the infrastructure etc.

**AWS Serverless Application Model** (**AWS SAM** for short) simplifies a lot of those issues 🤩

Built with with best practices in mind, SAM allows you to:

🌟define your infrastructure as code using a YAML template (which can go through code review!)

🌟define resources such as lambda functions, DynamoDB tables etc. in a much simpler way than doing it directly in CloudFormation (which SAM is built on top of)

🌟build and deploy a serverless application from a command line

🌟debug and test lambda functions locally using SAM CLI

🌟debug and test lambda functions from WITHIN your editor with AWS Toolkit extension


Add AWS SAM to your toolkit with this quick collection!

**View and Contribute to the [Community Notes!](https://github.com/eggheadio-projects/build-serverless-applications-with-aws-sam)**

Build serverless applications with AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)

Angular elements are one of the major innovations in Angular 6+. Elements allow us to develop Angular components like we always have through Angular’s powerful API, and then compile them into browser-native custom elements. With custom elements, we can define new HTML elements in a framework-agnostic way that adheres to web standards. We can also extend the HTML by defining a tag whose content is created and controlled by JavaScript code.

In this course, we’ll look at how to leverage Angular elements within our Angular apps to make them even more dynamic — a use case that’s commonly required in CMS-like environments. Going a step further, we’ll also see how we can compile our Angular elements into a standalone script file, which you can integrate into any other web context to pass data and register events on your custom elements.

Thanks for joining us!

Getting Started with Angular Elements

This playlist covers all of the ways to use the node.js DocumentClient to interact with one or more DynamoDB tables.


note: We do not cover scan() as it is not recommended for most usage and if you need it you'll know how to read the documentation to use it by the end of this collection.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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DynamoDB: The Node.js DocumentClient

This collection is a sequel to the [Building a Serverless JAMStack Todo app with Netlify, Gatsby, GraphQL, and FaunaDB](https://egghead.io/playlists/building-a-serverless-jamstack-todo-app-with-netlify-gatsby-graphql-and-faunadb-53bb) collection. In this collection we take the TODO application we built and convert it to run using Netlify Identity, AWS Lambda (using the serverless framework) and DynamoDB. We cover

* Fauna vs DynamoDB and when to use each
* Setting up AWS accounts
* Creating DynamoDB tables and data modeling differences between Fauna and Dynamo
* Converting our Netlify Functions deployment to a Serverless Framework deployment
* Implementing Custom authorizer functions on AWS

It uses tools that remove as many of the barriers as possible. Netlify Functions grows into Serverless Framework adn AWS Lambda, Netlify Identity is kept around, and FaunaDB can grows into DynamoDB.



FaunaDB is a global serverless database that gives you ubiquitous, low latency access to app data, without sacrificing data correctness. It eliminates layers of app code for manually handling data anomalies, security, and scale, creating a friendlier dev experience for you and better app experience for your users.

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Converting a Serverless App to run on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB with Serverless Framework

React makes it intuitive to build real-world web application. But in reality, you need to use a host of other services to get the app in front of real users. 

This course walks you through setup and implementation to get your cloud-based application up and running. 

You’ll learn to set up:
* a new project in AWS Amplify configured to your React app
* user authentication with Amazon Cognito 
* managed GraphQL with AWS AppSync
* image storage and retrieval with Amazon S3
* text translation via Lambda functions
* and finally, deployment of your application on AWS using Amazon S3

You’ll finish the course ready to quickly and easily deploy your serverless React application, so users can start using and enjoying it right away.

React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile UI from declarative components.

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Building Serverless Web Applications with React & AWS Amplify

As your Angular application grows, it becomes more difficult to manage application state.

NgRx can help with that!

In this course, we will learn how to convert an Angular application from using stateful services into using NgRx.

We will accomplish this by adding a new feature, including building a reducer and actions. We'll also touch on using selectors to query our state, managing collections with NgRx entity, async operations, and hiding implementation details with the facade pattern.

Reactive State Management in Angular with ngrx

Angular is particularly popular at large enterprises. Most of the time those line of business apps are very data driven and forms heavy. While Angular gives us two different approaches to implementing forms, neither of them is very satisfying, nor do they help keep the maintainability high especially in large enterprise apps. 

In this course we're going to learn about [ngx-formly](https://formly.dev/), a library that helps cope with some of the mentioned issues. With Formly you define the form structure once in your component code and the HTML will be taken care of by the library. This helps to reduce maintainability and moreover Formly has some nice reactive features built-in that help you reduce your form code even more.

Questions? Ping me [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/juristr) or on [juri.dev](https://juri.dev) 🙂

Configuration based reactive Angular Forms with ngx-formly

With GraphQL, you can define the shape of your data in a schema, and GraphQL will fulfill the request with the precise data you need. When you need it. This doesn't come without a cost. GraphQL adds a lot of complexity to your application by requiring you to define your schemas through types, mutations, and resolvers.

AppSync is a fully managed serverless GraphQL service that fast-tracks your API development. You can define a single type, and AppSync auto-generates a schema, queries, mutators, and subscriptions for you.

In this course, Nader Dabit will show you how to:

- build a production-ready GraphQL API through AWS AppSync
- create and modify data through the AWS AppSync console
- connect a React application to the GraphQL API
- execute queries, mutations, and subscriptions for data through the API in React

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

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Scalable Offline-Ready GraphQL Applications with AWS AppSync & React

AWS Lambda, Serverless, FaaS - there is a lot of noise around those topics online (and for a very good reason!) and it can get confusing at times 🤯

In this collection we're going to take a look at AWS Lambda from scratch, in order to get **YOU** from:

"_I have no idea what a lambda function is_" 

to 

"_I know quite a bit about AWS Lambda, and I'm going to use it to solve my problems_"

Checkout the [community notes for this collection on github](https://github.com/theianjones/egghead.io_learn_aws_lambda_from_scratch).

Learn AWS Lambda from scratch

The tools available for unit testing have come a long way. While testing may never be “easy”, the available tools have certainly moved testing closer to the simple end of the spectrum. Full end to end testing hasn’t quite kept the same pace and as a result many applications are testing manually and often by users in production. Cypress provides a testing environment that makes end-to-end testing fast and reliable with a simple API that makes creating automated unit tests for your web applications a no-brainer.


End to End testing with Cypress

Components are all about encapsulating decisions. The perfect component makes good decisions for you without making you think about it. Of course, no one knows what decisions you’re going to want. To make components reusable, we set reasonable defaults, then allow you to override them when you don’t like the decisions made for you.

This course covers three broad categories of decisions that can be encapsulated in a component: state, view, and logic. You’ll learn to move an Angular component from completely static to very configurable using a variety of techniques.

The course takes some of the most popular components in web development and applies them to Angular. You’ll learn to write components that are opinionated about their core purpose, but allow parent components to overwrite secondary concerns when pain points require a more complex pattern.