The template: cloudformation.yml
Quickly deploy an endpoint to handle your contact us
form on your static website. We don't want to have servers running just to handle our contact us
form which rarely gets invoked. Oh, and we also need Captcha because we don't have time in our lives for spam.
You can get your reCAPTCHA secret here: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list
- Lambda (API Function)
- API Gateway (HTTP proxy to Lambda)
- S3 (Lambda files)
- SES (Send us the email)
- CodeCommit (GIT repo)
- CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code)
- IAM (AWS permissions & users)
<form action="<your api gateway url>" method="POST" id="contact-us-form">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="nameInputEmail1">Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="nameInputEmail1" name="name" placeholder="Full name">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="exampleInputEmail1">Email address</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="exampleInputEmail1" name="email"
placeholder="Enter email">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="phoneInputEmail1">Phone number</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="phoneInputEmail1" name="phone"
placeholder="Enter phone">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="messageInputEmail1">Message</label>
<textarea type="textarea" class="form-control" id="messageInputEmail1" name="message"
placeholder="Enter message"></textarea>
</div>
<p class="thanks">Thanks! We'll contact you soon.</p>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary g-recaptcha"
data-sitekey="6LdrWS0UAAAAAPAokGKpRhrObJkaaCX0EMsEiofN"
data-callback="onContctUsSubmit" data-badge="inline" >Submit</button>
</form>
JQuery example...
$.post($("#contact-us-form").attr('action'), JSON.stringify({
name: $("#contact-us-form input[name='name']").val(),
email: $("#contact-us-form input[name='email']").val(),
phone: $("#contact-us-form input[name='phone']").val(),
message: $("#contact-us-form textarea[name='message']").val(),
'g-recaptcha-response': $("#contact-us-form textarea[name='g-recaptcha-response']").val()
}), function (data) {
$(".thanks").show();
$("#contact-us-form button").hide();
}, 'json');