Build Node.js apps with AWS DynamoDB & Docker containers

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Starting point source code

Chapter 2: Restructuring our project files

Lecture 1: Start reorganising files into more logical modules

Lecture 2: Separating our first controller

Lecture 3: Reorganizing the rest of the controllers

Lecture 4: Separate the Router logic too

Lecture 5: Conclusion on reorganising our project

Chapter 3: Local DynamoDB Setup

Lecture 1: What is DynamoDB and Why use it

Lecture 2: Installing NodeJS dependencies

Lecture 3: Running DynamoDB on our local computer using Docker

Lecture 4: Installing a visual user interface to inspect the locally hosted DynamoDB

Chapter 4: Implementing DynamoDB

Lecture 1: Setting up our connection to DynamoDB

Lecture 2: What are Environment Variables and why use them

Lecture 3: Finishing the DynamoDB connection configuration

Lecture 4: Writing a DynamoDB client

Lecture 5: What is a DynamoDB DataMapper and why use it

Lecture 6: Creating a table to store our ToDo items

Lecture 7: What is an Index in DynamoDB

Lecture 8: Manually inserting a ToDo item into our DynamoDB

Lecture 9: Creating a ToDo item Model in code

Lecture 10: Inserting our first ToDo item by code

Lecture 11: Debugging our DynamoDB connection

Lecture 12: Introduction to JavaScript Promises

Lecture 13: What are HTTP Status codes

Lecture 14: Finishing up our Create ToDo controller

Lecture 15: Implementing our Get ToDo's controller

Lecture 16: Installing Nodemon to automatically reset our development server for us

Lecture 17: Sending the ToDo's back in our responses

Lecture 18: Filtering out completed ToDo's

Lecture 19: Implementing the Update Todo Endpoint

Lecture 20: What is Async/Await and why is it a good alternative to .then().catch()

Lecture 21: Finishing the Update ToDo code

Lecture 22: A better way to organise the try/catch blocks

Lecture 23: Const and Let variable scopes

Lecture 24: Sending a success response

Lecture 25: Fixing the URL params in our router

Lecture 26: Testing and DynamoDB outro

Lecture 27: Adding Production Credentials to your app

Chapter 5: Dockerizing, deploying to AWS Fargate & setting up auto-scaling

Lecture 1: Dockerizing our app

Lecture 2: Pushing to AWS Elastic Container Registry

Lecture 3: Setting up AWS Fargate

Lecture 4: Adding a Domain Name to our app

Lecture 5: Setting up auto-scaling – Intro

Lecture 6: Auto Scaling – Target Tracking

Lecture 7: Auto Scaling – Step Scaling