Serverless SaaS Starter Kit

Provides a starter kit with the basics of a modern Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) software stack, including:

• RESTful API - using serverless technology
• SPAs (Single Page Applications) - for both:
  • the external (pre-login), and
  • internal (business guts) part of your SaaS app
• Authentication - handled by third parties, currently:
  • Google
  • GitHub
• Payment processing - subscription-based, handled by Stripe

Authentication

The starter kit allows a user to sign in to your SaaS application using their preferred third-party identity provider. It uses Google and GitHub, but you could add others as needed.

There are no server-side redirects since this kit is built with a design of a SPA and RESTful API. A good explanation of the flow implemented in this kit can be found in Matthew Beale's excellent blog post.

Payment Processing

Payment processing will be handled via Stripe.

Code Organization

The code is organized into a collection of small codebases (some would say microservices), each with its distinct responsibility:

• Public SPA - for the pre-login portion of your app
• Application SPA - the logged-in actual business portion of your app
• Authentication API - a serverless API that handles authentication for your app
• Business API - a serverless API that handles your actual business service
• Payments - a serverless API and related services for payment processing

Serverless Microservices

The serverless microservices are built using the Serverless framework on top of AWS services, including AWS API Gateway.