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Serverless RESTful API with AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB

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Contacts API

Source for the article: Build a RESTful API using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and the Serverless Framework

Setup

NOTE: If you have Docker installed, instead of installing Java and downloading the DynamoDb-Local jar file to run, you can run docker-compose up -d localstack command against the docker-compose.yml file in this project to set up DynamoDb running in a LocalStack container with persisted data turned on.


Download the DynamoDb-Local jar file for your system here.

  • Extract the jar file to the root of this repository (the parent of this project folder) under the name: dynamodb_local.

Create a .env file at the root of the project and add in your own values for these enviornment variables.

  • AWS_ENDPOINT='http://localhost:8000/' # or http://localhost:4566
  • AWS_REGION='localhost'
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='fake-access-key'
  • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='fake-secret-key'

IMPORTANT: DO NOT COMMIT THE .env FILE!!!

Running

DynamoDB Local

  • Open a terminal at the the folder where you extracted the jar file (Setup section).
    • Run: java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb to start it on the default port: 8000.
    • Open a browser at: http://localhost:8000/shell to interact with DynamoDB through the interactive shell.

...Or with LocalStack Docker container

  • Run docker-compose up -d localstack
  • If you already run the docker-compose.yml file and didn't teardown the container, start it again with, docker-compose start.

Lambda Functions

  • Run npm run seed to seed some test data.
  • Run npm start to start the functions locally.

Test by trying to hit an Api endpoint.

  • curl -i localhost:3000/contacts

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