JAMstack Netlify Workshop

Serverless

What can we use it for?

  • Clean data on a cron job ⏰
  • Take data and use it to create data visualizations 📊
  • Crop images uploaded by the user and create a user profile 🖼

Benefits

  • You pay only for what you use
    (usually a
    lot less)
  • Less time babysitting a server
  • Same idea as functional programming, breaking things into small bits
  • Principle of least power

Simplest Example

functions/index.js

// functions/index.js
exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
  return {
    statusCode: 200,
    body: JSON.stringify({
      message: "Hi there Tacos",
      event
    })
  }
}

Simplest Example

netlify.toml

[build]
  functions = "functions"
  

Let's Deploy! 🚀

More info:

Environment Variable

const { GREETING } = process.env;

exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
  return {
    statusCode: 200,
    body: GREETING
  };
};

Fetch from an API

import fetch from "node-fetch";

const API_ENDPOINT = "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/";

exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
  return fetch(API_ENDPOINT, { headers: { "Accept": "application/json" } })
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(data => ({
      statusCode: 200,
      body: data.joke
    }))
    .catch(error => ({ statusCode: 422, body: String(error) }));
};

Exercise:

Make your first Netlify function!

 

See if you can use an environment variable.

Extra points for calling an API, a

great list is here.

yarn add dotenv
require("dotenv").config()

const stripe = require("stripe")(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY)
const headers = {
  "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
  "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": "Content-Type"
}
exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
  if (!event.body || event.httpMethod !== "POST") {
    return {
      statusCode: 400,
      headers,
      body: JSON.stringify({
        status: "invalid http method"
      })
    }
  }

  const data = JSON.parse(event.body)

  if (!data.stripeToken || !data.stripeAmt || !data.stripeIdempotency) {
    console.error("Required information is missing.")

    return {
      statusCode: 400,
      headers,
      body: JSON.stringify({
        status: "missing information"
      })
    }
  }
try {
  await stripe.customers
    .create({
      email: data.stripeEmail,
      source: data.stripeToken
    })
    .then(customer => {
      console.log(
        `starting the charges, 
         amt: ${data.stripeAmt}, 
         email: ${data.stripeEmail}`
      )
      return stripe.charges
        .create(
          {
            currency: "usd",
            amount: data.stripeAmt,
            receipt_email: data.stripeEmail,
            customer: customer.id,
            description: "Sample Charge"
          },
          {
            idempotency_key: data.stripeIdempotency
          }
        )
        .then(result => {
          console.log(`Charge created: ${result}`)
        })
    })
yarn add vue-stripe-elements-plus uuid
<template>
  <div id='app'>
    <h1>Please give us your payment details:</h1>
    <card class='stripe-card'
      :class='{ complete }'
      stripe='pk_test_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
      :options='stripeOptions'
      @change='complete = $event.complete'
    />
    <button @click='pay' 
			class='pay-with-stripe' 
            :disabled='!complete'
	>
      Pay with credit card
    </button>
  </div>
</template>
<script>
import { stripeKey, stripeOptions } from './stripeConfig.json'
import { Card, createToken } from 'vue-stripe-elements-plus'

export default {
  data () {
    return {
      complete: false,
      stripeOptions: {
        // see https://stripe.com/docs/stripe.js#element-options for details
      }
    }
  },

  components: { Card },

  methods: {
    pay () {
      // createToken returns a Promise which resolves in a result object with
      // either a token or an error key.
      // See https://stripe.com/docs/api#tokens for the token object.
      // See https://stripe.com/docs/api#errors for the error object.
      // More general https://stripe.com/docs/stripe.js#stripe-create-token.
      createToken().then(data => console.log(data.token))
    }
  }
}
</script>
data() {
    return {
      ...
      stripeEmail: ""
    };
  },
  methods: {
    pay() {
      createToken().then(data => {
        const stripeData = { data, stripeEmail: this.stripeEmail };
        this.$store.dispatch("postStripeFunction", stripeData);
      });
    },
 ...
// Vuex store
export const actions = {
  async postStripeFunction({ getters, commit }, payload) {
    commit("updateCartUI", "loading")

    try {
      await axios
        .post(
          "https://ecommerce-netlify.netlify.com/.netlify/functions/index",
          {
            stripeEmail: payload.stripeEmail,
            stripeAmt: Math.floor(getters.cartTotal * 100), //it expects the price in cents                        
            stripeToken: "tok_visa", //testing token, later we would use payload.data.token
            stripeIdempotency: uuidv1() //we use this library to create a unique id
          },
          {
            headers: {
              "Content-Type": "application/json"
            }
          }
        )
        .then(res => {
          if (res.status === 200) {
            commit("updateCartUI", "success")
            setTimeout(() => commit("clearCart"), 3000)
            …
<section v-if="cartUIStatus === 'idle'">
  <app-cart-display />
</section>

<section v-else-if="cartUIStatus === 'loading'" class="loader">
  <app-loader />
</section>

<section v-else-if="cartUIStatus === 'success'" class="success">
  <h2>Success!</h2>
  <p>Thank you for your purchase. You'll be receiving your items in 4 business days.</p>
  <p>Forgot something?</p>

  <button class="pay-with-stripe">
    <nuxt-link exact to="/">Back to Home</nuxt-link>
  </button>
</section>

<section v-else-if="cartUIStatus === 'failure'">
  <p>Oops, something went wrong. Redirecting you to your cart to try again.</p>
</section>

Exercise

Make a Netlify Function that hooks up to the Frontend (deployed):

 

Create a serverless function that connects to Twilio and texts someone when you hit a button. You have to store env variables

 

Alternative: use an API and display data on a button click.

JAMstack Netlify Workshop: Serverless Functions

By sdrasner

JAMstack Netlify Workshop: Serverless Functions

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