The cloud computing landscape is rapidly advancing, simplifying the development and deployment process for developers. With automated deployment and hosting platforms, advanced front-end frameworks, and robust back-end databases, building full-stack applications has never been easier. This article demonstrates how to leverage Vercel, SvelteKit, and MongoDB to create a serverless application. Each of these technologies excels in its respective domain, and when combined, they offer a powerful, streamlined approach to full-stack development.
To showcase these tools, we’ll build a simple application that allows users to submit two pieces of data: an apothegm (a concise piece of wisdom) and its author. The goal is to provide a front-end form where users can input these two fields, which will then be stored in a MongoDB database. This application is the perfect example of how easy it is to integrate Vercel, SvelteKit, and MongoDB for a serverless solution.
SvelteKit will serve as the framework for the front-end, enabling the creation of a dynamic user interface with minimal effort. The application will consist of a simple form where users enter an apothegm and its author. Upon form submission, the data will be sent to a back-end endpoint. In SvelteKit, endpoints act as abstractions of the request-response lifecycle, similar to Express.js, simplifying the back-end logic.
The real power of this setup comes when deploying to Vercel. Vercel abstracts away the need for server management, allowing us to focus solely on writing code. The data received from the front end will be processed by a serverless function and inserted into a MongoDB collection hosted on MongoDB Atlas, a fully managed, cloud-native database service. This approach not only reduces the complexity of server management but also provides a scalable, cost-effective solution for running modern applications. Once we’ve built the app, we’ll host it on GitHub and deploy it to Vercel, making it available to the public in no time.