Setup Basic Serverless Project

In this lesson, we'll focus on creating a basic Serveless project, which we'll then use in further lessons.

In the serverless.yml file, we define the configurations and resources needed for our Serverless project. This file is crucial as it provides the Serverless Framework with instructions on how to deploy and manage the resources for our application.

When we start with an empty serverless.yml file, we need to add the following components:

• service: This is where we specify the name of the service, which is a logical grouping of all the related resources and functions. In our case, we name it sweet-factory.

• provider: The provider section includes details about the cloud service provider, such as the name and the runtime environment. For our sweets factory project, we use AWS as the provider, and Node.js as the runtime (specifically, version 18.x).

• functions: This section is where we ...