[GroupBuy] Kyle Gawley – How To Build a SaaS Product

• Why start with data?
• Relational or non-relational data?
• Data modelling tools
• Designing data models
• Normalisation, Foreign Keys & Cascades

• Scaffolding the models
• CRUD anatomy
• ORMs and query builders
• Creating the models & controllers
• Security considerations

• What is a REST API?
• Building the API
• Global error handling
• Throttling for security
• Testing with Postman

• Issuing JWT auth tokens
• Sign up and sign in flows
• Protecting API endpoints
• User roles and permissions
• Creating scoped API keys

• Setting up Mailgun
• Building a mail module
• Avoid HTML table hell with JSON emails
• Allowing users to customise email settings
• Sending email notifications to users

• Client authentication best practices
• Client routing & private routes
• Sign in and Sign up flows
• Forgot password flow
• Sign out flow

• Layout
• Colour
• Scale
• Typography
• Iconography

• Understanding organisations and users
• Building a user admin UI
• Building a user invite flow
• The user sign up flow
• Multi-organisation logic

• Creating the billing UI
• Upgrading, downgrading & cancelling
• Updating the credit cards
• Secure Customer Authentication (SCA)
• Implementing free trials

• Creating the public profile page
• Creating the photo uploader
• Storing photos in Amazon S3
• Designing a photo grid
• Photo detail page with comments

• Building a SaaS dashboard
• Create the API key admin UI
• Tracking photo views
• Add photo metrics
• Building a help view

• Why you should test
• Types of tests
• Writing unit tests
• Writing integration tests
• UI & user testing

• Keep packages up to date
• Preventing XSS attacks
• Content security policies
• Understanding CORS
• Database security

• Choosing a hosting platform
• Configuring the production environment
• Database SSL certificates
• Deploying to Heroku
• Building a deployment pipeline

• Advanced features to consider
• Launching your app
• Marketing your app
• Building an audience
• Feedback

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