Learn Electron, Netlify and Twit

Starting from a prebuilt frontend, Jason Lengstorf guides you through the creation of a "Corgi Up-boop App" that uses Netlify Functions and Hasura. You can view [the deployed final product on Netlify](https://egghead-serverless-functions.netlify.app/).

You'll set up the Netlify CLI, and configure a local development environment before writing and deploying functions with a few different use cases.

The first example function bypasses CORS restrictions to retrieve corgi data from an example third-party API.

Next, you'll configure environmental variables to securely communicate with the Unsplash API without exposing private keys to the client.

Serverless functions don't persist data by themselves, so we will use  Hasura to create a GraphQL API for tracking the number of "boops" each corgi receives.

This course is an excellent illustration of the speed of Serverless functions, and how fast you can implement functionality in your web applications.

An all-in-one workflow that combines global deployment, continuous integration, and automatic HTTPS.

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Build a Corgi Up-boop Web App with Netlify Serverless Functions and Hasura

How does e-commerce work on the Jamstack? 

Jason Lengstorf and [Thor 雷神](https://twitter.com/thorwebdev) teamed up on _Learn With Jason_ to [build a serverless Stripe Checkout implementation](https://www.learnwithjason.dev/sell-products-on-the-jamstack). This collection is a cleaned up, egghead-style tutorial for selling products on a Jamstack site using Netlify Functions and Stripe Checkout.

Sell Products Using Stripe Checkout and Netlify Functions

OpenGraph images are the images you see when you paste a link into a social platform and it "unfurls" into an image, title, and description. This happens on Twitter, Discord, Slack, and many other platforms. This collection goes over everything from designing OpenGraph images in Figma, to implementing them in CodeSandbox, to returning headless browser screenshots from Netlify Functions, and finally using Cloudinary as a write-through cache. 

You will come away from this collection with the ability to ship an API that you can use on any of your sites, and also on-demand, that can generate images for not only OpenGraph unfurls, but also for Instagram, GitHub, and more. Using headless browsers with playwright to generate our images means we get full access to all the responsive power of CSS and all the logical power of JS to handle layout, importing assets like pngs, choosing different fonts, and more.

The image below is generated via the project you'll build and deploy in this course

![An example opengraph image](https://relaxed-payne-d1bfbe.netlify.com/opengraph?title=Building%20an%20OpenGraph%20image%20generation%20API%20with%20Cloudinary%20Netlify%20Functions%20and%20React&tags=figma,netlify%20functions,playwright&author=chrisbiscardi)

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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Building an OpenGraph image generation API with Cloudinary, Netlify Functions, and React

A short list of screencasts to cover essentials of [Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/) to get started and have enough knowledge to become dangerous. 

The content comes from multiple instructors that have each covered different essentials, this cherry picks some of the most important concepts.

Videos in this collection cover these topics:
- installing plugins
- creating pages
- navigating between pages
- adding optimized images
- theming your styles
- deploying your site

Gatsby is a blazing fast static site generator built with React. Gatsby gives you all of the modern JavaScript tools you want; set up and ready to go out of the box.

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Up and Running with Gatsby

This application serves as an introduction to building products with a JAMStack and Serverless approach. We cover everything from the beginning:

* starting with the Gatsby client
* handling authentication with Netlify Identity
* Shipping a GraphQL server on Netlify Functions
* Building in access control with a serverless capable database

It uses tools that remove as many of the barriers as possible while also allowing upgrading in the future. Netlify Functions can grow into AWS Lambda, Netlify Identity can grow into Auth0 or Cognito, and FaunaDB can grow into DynamoDB.

Building a Serverless JAMStack Todo app with Netlify, Gatsby, GraphQL, and FaunaDB

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

Electron is a framework that makes it easy to create cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Electron and open-source tools give you everything you need to create a compelling desktop app--native user interface elements like menus and dialogs, installers, auto-updates, and more. 

This course will teach you the core concepts of Electron so that you can leverage it to create your own desktop application for macOS and Windows. 

We'll go over:
- Creating user interfaces in Electron (both HTML based and native)
- Understanding Electron's multi-process architecture 
- Shipping your app to users

Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

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Build a desktop application with Electron

In this course we’ll learn how to create Twitter bots. We’ll first learn how to interface with the Twitter API using Twit.js, which allows us to post statuses, search tweets, and interact with followers. We’ll create several example bots that show the diversity of possibilities, using powerful tools such as RiTa.js, Google’s Cloud Vision API, and Tracery. We’ll learn how to tweet data from Google Spreadsheets, and to compose and tweet a song for an audio bot. We’ll also learn how to host our bot logic on Heroku and Docker. 

Twitter API Client for node

Supports both the REST and Streaming API.

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Create your own twitter bots

Next.js is a React framework that provides a solutions to problems such as:

- 🌟 bundling & transpiling your React code
- 🌟 code splitting
- 🌟 being able to switch between client side rendering & server side rendering depending on the page (e.g. landing page vs. settings page)
- 🌟 client-side routing

In this collection we're going to learn how to harness the power of Next.js + TypeScript and how to work with Netlify in order to deploy our site for others to enjoy!

Learn how to:
- 🔥 Create a new Next.js project
- 🔥 Add TypeScript support
- 🔥 Create styled components with Emotion
- 🔥 Use both static and dynamic routes
- 🔥 Generate fully typed static pages
- 🔥 Set up Netlify deployments
- 🔥 Add a Netlify Form to our site
- 🔥 and more!

Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.

Build a site from scratch with Next.js, TypeScript, Emotion and Netlify

In this lesson, you will learn how to push your website code to Github and Build and deploy it using Netlify

Deploy a Gatsby website on Netlify

Netlify will automatically build your Gatsby website whenever you push new code to your repository but what about content changes in Contentful. In this lesson, you will learn how to use Contentful webhook feature to trigger a Netlify build whenever you publish or delete new content on Contentful

Trigger Netlify Builds when content changes in Contentful

Restricting access to content that is delivered client-side in a Gatsby site takes a few steps. We use Netlify Identity to handle user authentication and reach router to build our auth-restricted client-side application.

Using Netlify Identity to control access to a Gatsby client-side dashboard route

We set up the build command, deployment directory, and other necessities to get our Gatsby site auto-deploying on commit to Netlify.

Setting up continuous deployment for a Gatsby site in yarn workspaces using Netlify

Apollo provides a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing services, so you can build new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.

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GraphQL provides a really great interface for product development. We can combine that with the deployment model Netlify gives us for serverless functions to ship a graphql api.

**Note:** At `00:44` I say `graphql.js` but show `index.js`. `graphql.js` is the file that should be used.

Deploying a GraphQL API on Netlify serverless functions with apollo-server-lambda

We take a set of DynamoDB queries that insert, update, and query for TODOs and replace the entire backend of our GraphQL API which is currently using FaunaDB. We cover DynamoDB operation ReturnValues for put, update, and query operations, implementing transformer functions to coordinate the stored representation in DynamoDB with your business objects, and then we get into Netlify. Netlify's environment variables don't allow us to use AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID as an environment variable name. Once we fix that, we set up a pull request on GitHub, which results in a Deploy Preview that includes our new GraphQL function deployment!

Replacing FaunaDB with DynamoDB as the Backend of a GraphQL API with Zero Client Changes

Netlify Identity allows you to manage and authenticate users on your site or app, without requiring them to be users of Netlify or any other service. You can use this for gated content, site administration, and more.

In this lesson, we integrate Netlify identity with Gatsby using React hooks.

Implementing Authentication with Netlify Identity, React hooks, and Gatsby

The netlify identity widget overlays the entire page with an iframe. this can cause the application to not receive click events. In this lesson we go over how to fix that.

Fixing the Netlify Identity Widget when it prevents clicks after login

We take advantage of Netlify Identity and Apollo client links to pass the user's Bearer token to the GraphQL API running on Netlify functions. This allows us to implement access control on the server using the user object passed in from the Identity service.

Using Netlify Identity to authenticate a user in a GraphQL API using apollo links

We compare Netlify Functions with AWS Lambda and talk about why we'd move from one to the other. Netlify Functions is a high level DX on top of AWS Lambda, so we'll have to find a new DX as well.

Netlify Functions vs AWS Lambda

We have a GraphQL service deployed but the service was moved from Netlify Functions to AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda doesn't do the same magic that Netlify Identity+Functions did for us, so we have to explore the GoTrue API, figure out which endpoints to hit, write an AWS custom authorizer, and make sure the authorizer will run before our lambda function.

Writing an AWS custom authorizer to enable the use of Netlify Identity on AWS Lambda

We can set up our WordPress-powered Gatsby site to automatically deploy to Netlify whenever our code on GitHub changes. In this video, we’ll use the Netlify CLI to configure and deploy our Gatsby site to Netlify.

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