Alright, we talked the “serverless is awesome” talk but now it about time to walk the walk. In the next 15 minutes, I’ll take you through the entire process of creating your first website running on serverless and you better believe it’s going to be awesome.

So without further ado let’s start with what you’ll need. First off you’ll need to sign up for Amazon. There are a few steps you’ll have to take in order to be squared away but the entire process should take less than 5 minutes.

Now that that’s squared away make sure you’ve got NodeJs installed on your computer. I’m using version 8 so you might want to have at least NodeJs v8+.

Prerequisite

If you don’t have it you can download NodeJs. You’ll have to download the installer, run it following the onscreen instructions and then restart your computer. Once that’s done let’s test it to see if everything is running correctly. Open your terminal or favorite command-line tool and type in node -v. You should see a message saying v8.xx.x or something similar. Next up we need to double check our that npm is installed correctly. As you might have already guessed the command for that is npm -v.

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