Technical requirements
For deploying and testing the serverless app that we will develop in this chapter, you will need a Google Cloud Project. Let's look at the process of setting up a Google Cloud Platform account. The Google Cloud Platform offers a 12-month free trial and also gives you $300 credit to get started. If you spend the $300 credit in the first 12 months, then you will need to upgrade to a paid account to continue to use Google Cloud Platform services.
You can sign up for the Google Cloud Platform using your Google account at https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial.
To be able to create a Google Cloud Platform account, you will need a Google account. Once you have created the Google Cloud Platform account, a new project needs to be created so that you can start building apps to run on the Google Cloud Platform environment.
Once you have submitted all the details that are required to create the Google Cloud Platform account, then you will receive a notification stating that...