Hey guys, I just finished making the Scratch App up to the point where you buy a domain. It all seems really amazing, I’m just not sure I understand it quite yet. I’m trying to be patient with that, but I was wondering if there were any videos out or anything that go over what you wind up with on the Scratch App in either a “summary” type way or in depth. I’m a visual learner so seeing someone talk about it with slides or going through a bit of the code is always super nice. I just really want to get to a place where I feel a bit more confident in what all is actually happening. Loved the Scratch App tutorial though. So much to digest.

This is why I didn’t start the tutorial. I feel like it does a really bad job of explaining the basics, it runs through so much tech without giving the context behind it.

I think that’s because it assumes a bit of knowledge. It seems like it is for people who have struggled with building serverless apps before, and have experience

Are we referring to the same tutorial? I’m looking at the guide here. This is simply too much to work on in order to get foundational knowledge. It seems great for covering the full reach of SST but not as an entry point.

Hmm, I’m not sure. The one I followed is here: https://serverless-stack.com/chapters/who-is-this-guide-for.html

Yeah, same guide.

Ah. Yeah it’s a bit intimidating, but once you have it built it’s a lot easier to go over different parts of it and try to work your way backwards instead of forwards.

It’s not that it’s intimidating, it’s that I have a specific problem I wish to address with SST ASAP. I don’t have time to spend days on a tutorial learning every piece of SST if I can avoid it.

Ah, got’cha.

Sorry if last message came off a little hostile. Tone is hard to convey online sometimes lol.

Haha, no problem. What specific problem are you trying to solve? I just got through everything so I probably can’t help, but just curious

We're actually working on a brand new guide from ground up that's more targeted to what you're referring to

@Ryan Martin I posted just above you. @thdxr I think this guide is valuable, and I did a good amount of it a few months ago. But it takes a bit too long to ‘deliver’ on each concept, leading to confusion. You work through Lambda deployment, but before you really get a chance to see what that looks like in action, you’re on to DynamoDB.

@thdxr Nice. I’m just trying to build a e-commerce site while minimizing how much aws management I have to do. I think I’ll get there, just need to be patient.

Thanks for the feedback all! Yeah the guide is aimed at folks that want to build a complete full stack app. It takes a little bit to work through. It’s partly why we started creating specific examples: https://serverless-stack.com/examples/index.html with sample code: https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/tree/master/examples/. Then we realized that we needed to explain concepts in a simple and concise way as well, so we are currently working on adding a “Getting Started” guide to our docs (what @thdxr mentioned). Hopefully that addresses some of the issues. @Ryan Martin for the current guide, would you want to see a summary of the architecture before we go through all the steps? Maybe a diagram of sorts? I can see that being really helpful.

Yes, that would be amazing. I logged into my new aws account after finishing the Scratch project and there was so much stuff in there. It made me a little anxious that I didn’t know what it all was / how exactly it all fit together with the sst stuff and react. A visual diagram of everything would be amazing for visual learners like myself. Thanks!

@Jay This guide really needs more explanation in general. After completing the Hello World step, I have 4 new lambda functions. There are several stacks created in cloud formation. None of this is explained. The next step is to initialize a Github repo and then create a DynamoDB table. There isn’t even a prompt to look at CloudFormation or Lambda to view changes. With the Hello World you could explain how to add functionality to the Lambda function or what the functions are doing. Instead, all of this information is skipped over. This guide is very paint by numbers without an acceptable amount of information.

Yeah I can see that. So you would like to understand what the constructs are doing behind the scenes? Or would you like to learn how to use the AWS Console?