WTF Are Serverless Apps? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Builds a single-page app called Snowmaha that tells whether it’s snowing in Omaha by calling the Dark Sky API. Uses vanilla JavaScript on the frontend and a Node backend deployed as a Netlify Function (using AWS Lambda under the hood) to avoid CORS without needing an AWS account or dashboard. Demonstrates local development with npm scripts to compile/run the function and a GitHub→Netlify deploy that goes live in seconds and handled real traffic.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:57About Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
3. 11:36Node.js Function
4. 14:01Development Process
5. 14:18Scripts for Running Servers
6. 16:27What's Next
7. 19:03Review

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