Getting Started
Imagine we have a static website and need server logic to store contacts and validate data. This would require a server, a database and some code to glue it all together. With a serverless approach, we can just sprinkle little functions (that we call actions) on top of our static website and let Nuvolaris take care of the rest. No more setting up VMs, backend web servers, databases, etc.
In this tutorial, we will see how you can take advantage of several services which are already part of a Nuvolaris deployment and develop a contact form page for users to fill it with their emails and messages, which are then sent via email to us and stored in a database.
Nuvolaris CLI: Nuv
Serverless development is mostly performed on the CLI, and Nuvolaris has its tool called "nuv". It’s a command line tool that allows you to deploy (and interact with) the platform seamlessly to the cloud, locally and in custom environments.
Nuv is cross-platform and can be installed on Windows, Linux and MacOS. You can find it here: Nuv Releases
Deploy Nuvolaris
To start using Nuvolaris you can refer to the Installation Guide. You can follow the local installation to quickly get started with Nuvolaris deployed on your machine, or if you want to follow the tutorial on a deployment on cloud you can pick one of the many supported cloud provider. Once installed come back here!
Enabling Services
We also want to enable some extra services: a Postgres database, Static content with the Minio storage and a cron scheduler. We will use them shortly to upload frontend and store the data for our app! Let’s run in the terminal:
nuv config enable --postgres --static --minio --cronSince you should already have a deployment running, we have to update it with the new services so they get deployed. Simply run:
nuv update applyAnd with just that (when it finishes), we have everything we need ready to use!