To get the most out of this book

Knowledge of serverless architectures and frameworks, as well as Node.js, would be an advantage. Sufficient information will be provided to those new to this field.

Chapter 2, Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs, has the installation instructions for the software that you will need to develop serverless applications on your workstation. Please make sure to go through it.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The actual event data is available within the data property of the event object."

A block of code is set as follows:

function handleGET(req, res) {
    res.status(200).send('Hello from HTTP Google Cloud Function!');
}

function handlePUT(req, res) {
    res.status(403).send("Forbidden, you don't have access");
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

curl -X POST https://<YOUR_REGION>-<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>.cloudfunctions.net/<FUNCTION_NAME> -H "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"name":"Kuldeep"}'

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example:

"Select the trigger type as Cloud Pub/Sub topic."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.