Part two: serverless real-time ReactJS app — AWS IoT MQTT

Let’s learn how to leverage the Serverless Framework to automate an AWS backend🔥

This article is part of a series:

• Part one — Creating an MVP
• Part two — Learning to automate

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/serverless-guru/real-time-weather

In part one, we covered how to hook up AWS IoT MQTT with a ReactJS frontend. Giving our ReactJS application real-time communication where every device will instantly* be updated when a new message is published to our MQTT topic.

In part two, we will be extending the application to include the Serverless Framework and do the following:

• Create a basic Serverless Framework project
• Dive into best practices with Serverless Framework
• Add AWS resources
• Deploy to AWS
• Test the deployed AWS backend

Let’s get into it!

Create a basic Serverless Framework project

If you’re not familiar with the Serverless Framework and/or do not have an AWS account set up already. Please go through our…