The Plant Journal

Allows users to add and update plant data

Tools Used

React
React Bootstrap
[React Router]
Serverless Framework
AWS cloud services
- Cognito
- DynamoDB

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Create an AWS account

Installing

Download AWS CLI
- Used to deploy and test the backend
Download NodeJS
- Used to run Frontend and install packages
Download Serverless Framework: npm install serverless -g
- Used to support the API and Serverless functions without creating boiler code

Configuring

Create an IAM user
- Give them programmatic access and administrator access
- Learn about IAM users and their functions
Configure the AWS CLI
Create a DynamoDB table
Create a Cognito User Pool
- Cognito provides auhentication and authorization for the users that will be added to the application.
Create Federeated Identity Pool
- Allows values inserted into DynamoDB to only be associated with that user

Local Deployment

Backend
- Run: npm install
- Run: serverless deploy
Frontend
- Update config.js
  - API Gateway values are found when deploying the backend
  - Cognito values are found in the Cognito dashboard
- Run: npm install
- Run: npm start

Project Structure

Backend

Uses serverless infrastructure

Frontend