Getting started

Who is this for?

• People who have been hacking away a few applications and are now looking to achieve professional quality.

• Solo founders who wants to build a high quality SaaS product.

What does it cover?

Everything you need to know to be able to build, run, scale and maintain a web application.

• How to build the most common features

• Automate code quality check

• Unit, Integration and E2E tests

• Deploy apps on AWS

• Secure your API, server and database

• Take payment for a monthly subscription

What are we building?

A collaborative bookmarking SaaS application with the following features:

• User sign in/up

• Add, update and delete links

• Organise your links with tags

• Add and remove collaborators

• Realtime comments

To achieve that we will:

• Build a GraphQL API with Subscriptions, package it in a Docker container and deploy it to Elastic Beanstalk.
• Build a React application using Styled-Components and Apollo and host it on S3.
• Store our data in Postgres managed by RDS in a Private VPC.
• Use CloudFront to enable HTTPS, serve S3 files and redirect URLs.
• Buy a domain on Route53
• Manage our cloud resources with CloudFormation.

Resources to read before you start

• Introduction To JavaScript
• Learn CSS
• React tutorial
• How do I start with Node.js after I installed it?
• GitHub guide
• TypeScript in 5 minutes
• Getting started with Docker

You don't need in-depth knowledge about those technologies to follow the tutorial.

Any questions? Find me on Twitter @florianherrengt.

Want to hire us? Let's chat.