A brand new primitive for your Begin apps: event functions!

A brand new primitive for your Begin apps: event functions!

Today we're introducing an entirely new primitive to Begin apps: event functions (@events)!

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Ryan Block
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A new view for Begin Data

A new view for Begin Data

Begin Data is a fast, durable key value store that comes with every Begin app — even the free ones!

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Paul Chin Jr
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Testing serverless apps with AVA on Begin

Testing serverless apps with AVA on Begin

This post will give an overview of testing with AVA on a serverless app in Begin. You can also check out our other articles on TAP, Jest, and Mocha.

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Paul Chin Jr
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Transpiling JavaScript with Babel on Begin

Transpiling JavaScript with Babel on Begin

In this post we'll demonstrate using Babel to implement a great new unreleased JS feature: optional chaining.

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Paul Chin Jr
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Testing serverless apps with Mocha on Begin

Testing serverless apps with Mocha on Begin

In this post we'll demonstrate using Babel to implement a great new unreleased JS feature: optional chaining.

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Paul Chin Jr
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Serverless app testing with Jest on Begin

Serverless app testing with Jest on Begin

In this post we'll demonstrate the basics of testing with Jest on a serverless app in Begin; the example app in this post will achieve the same results as our article about testing with Tap.

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Paul Chin Jr
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Serverless app testing with TAP on Begin

Serverless app testing with TAP on Begin

In this post we'll demonstrate the basics of testing with TAP on a serverless app in Begin; the example app in this post will achieve the same results as our article about testing with Jest.

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Paul Chin Jr
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New at Begin: add and manage routes via manifest file

New at Begin: add and manage routes via manifest file

We've got some pretty big news for how you build apps on Begin: it's finally possible to add and remove your app's routes entirely via manifest file.

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Brian Leroux
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Make a serverless Express API with OpenJS Architect

Make a serverless Express API with OpenJS Architect

Migrate your existing Express API or make use of your existing Express middleware in a serverless app

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Brian Leroux
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Run serverless Deno in AWS Lambda

Run serverless Deno in AWS Lambda

Use Begin to build a serverless / FASTstack Deno app!

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Brian Leroux
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Serverless Deno support with Architect

Serverless Deno support with Architect

Experimental next generation JavaScript runtime with first class TypeScript support now in beta

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Brian Leroux
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How to create a bundler-free OpenJS Architect serverless app with Babel

How to create a bundler-free OpenJS Architect serverless app with Babel

Author serverless AWS Lambda functions with next-generation JS, and without using bundlers

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Brian Leroux
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How to create an OpenJS Architect serverless app with TypeScript

How to create an OpenJS Architect serverless app with TypeScript

In this article we'll set up an Architect project that uses TypeScript to compile code for AWS Lambda.

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Brian Leroux
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How to create an OpenJS Architect serverless app with Babel and Rollup

How to create an OpenJS Architect serverless app with Babel and Rollup

Author serverless AWS Lambda functions with next-generation JS

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Brian Leroux
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The cloud lock-in myth: opting out of servers, and opting into de facto standards

The cloud lock-in myth: opting out of servers, and opting into de facto standards

The forecast is cloudy; with zero chance of servers. Practically all future compute workloads will run on cloud vendor infra.

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Brian Leroux
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Architect 6.0: Ruby, Python, CDNs, and CloudFormation

Architect 6.0: Ruby, Python, CDNs, and CloudFormation

The simplest, fastest way to build modern applications just got a lot more powerful

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Ryan Block
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Architect 5.5: serverless meets single-page apps & static site generators

Architect 5.5: serverless meets single-page apps & static site generators

Seamless integration of SPAs & static site generators with a super-fast serverless backend

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Brian Leroux
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Introducing Architect 5.0: fully serverless WebSockets

Introducing Architect 5.0: fully serverless WebSockets

Real time serverless compute is here! We're thrilled to announce Architect 5.0 (Catalope), with full API Gateway WebSocket integration.

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Brian Leroux
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Introducing Begin Data: DynamoDB made ridiculously easy!

Introducing Begin Data: DynamoDB made ridiculously easy!

Fast, scalable cloud function-based apps need fast, scalable cloud function-capable persistence.

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Brian Leroux
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The real reason frameworks get adopted

The real reason frameworks get adopted

Sitting down to write a serverless application in 2018 feels a lot like it did to write a greenfield web application in the pre-Rails and Django times.

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MRB
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