Deploy an AWS Lambda function to store data in DynamoDB using the Serverless Framework

Great so far!

You have a couple minor typos in your last Create.js in the transcript:

const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
const uuid = require('uuid/v4');

const client = new AWS.DynamoDB.documentClient();

module.exports.run = async (event) => {
  const data = JSON.parse(event.body);
  const params = {
    TableName: 'todos',
    Item: {
      id: uuid(),
      text: data.text,
      checked: false
    }
  };
};

If you are using the cmd and single quotes are giving you problems, use double quotes and escape the quotes within the string: curl -X POST https://zm7tuyj33a.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/todos --data "{"text": "learn serverless"}"

I was having issues with posting data with curl. I was getting "Internal Server error". After checking CloudWatch it turns out that the updated uuid package I was using, had changed its API

From https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid

const { v4: uuidv4 } = require('uuid');
uuidv4(); // ⇨ '1b9d6bcd-bbfd-4b2d-9b5d-ab8dfbbd4bed'

So I had to use uuidv4() for creating a todo id to make it work