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Play by Play: Build a Serverless Node Web API

by Simona Cotin and John Papa

In this course, you’ll learn how to build a web API and the advantages of doing that with Serverless.

What you'll learn

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Build a Serverless Node Web API, John Papa and Simona Cotin explore some of their favorite features and use cases for Serverless, along with VSCode you can use to develop and debug your serverless applications. Learn the basics of Serverless, how to create a functioning App inside VSCode, and options for deployment. By the end of this course, you’ll have a clear insight on how to build a web API with VSCode you can use to develop serverless applications.

About the authors

Simona Cotin is a web developer with a passion for teaching. She spends most of her time tinkering with JavaScript in the cloud and sharing her experience with other developers at community events like meetups and conferences or online. As a Cloud Developer Advocate, Simona engages with the web community to help create a great developer experience with Azure. She loves shipping code to production and has built network data analytics platforms using Angular, Typescript, React, and Java.

John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a professional Web Developer, and professional storyteller in the technology community. He currently is a Partner GM for Microsoft leading the Growth Ecosystems Cloud Advocacy teams and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications ans systems that you may have used. His passions are coding and teaching modern web technologies, running, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the Web Rush podcast... more

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