Serverless Podcast Management App

My Capstone project for the Udacity Cloud Developer Nanodegree

Functionality of the application

This application will allow creating/removing/updating/fetching podcasts and also episodes for each podcast. A user can upload a cover image for a podcast. A user can also upload an audio file for each episode.

Podcast items

For each podcast item the following fields are stored:

• userId (string) - id of the owner user of a podcast
• podcastId (string) - globally unique id of a podcast
• createdAt (string) - date and time when a podcast was created
• name (string) - name of a podcast
• hostName (string) - name of a person hosting a podcast
• description (string) - a short text about a podcast
• coverImageUrl (string) (optional) - a URL pointing to a cover image of the podcast
• isPublic (boolean) - true if a podcast should be publicly accessable

Episode items

For each episode item the following fields are stored:

• podcastId (string) - id of the podcast to which this episode belongs
• createdAt (string) - date and time when an episode was created
• name (string) - name of an episode
• description (string) - a short text about an episode
• audioUrl (string) (optional) - a URL pointing to an audio file with a recording of an episode

Deploying backend

cd backend
npm install
sls deploy -v

Running client locally

cd client
npm install
npm start