# How to use the Serverless Event Gateway: build a REST API and react to custom events

DevFeed: [How to use the Serverless Event Gateway: build a REST API and react to custom events](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-use-the-serverless-event-gateway-build-a-rest-api-and-react-to-custom-events-14239.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.serverless.com/blog/how-use-event-gateway-use-cases-rest-api-custom-events>)

Author: Alex DeBrie

Published: 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Serverless Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/serverless-blog.md>)

Topics: [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [REST API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rest-api.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [faas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/faas.md>), [function-as-a-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function-as-a-service.md>), [gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gateway.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>), [rest-api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest-api.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [serverless-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-architecture.md>), [serverless-framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-framework.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on using the Serverless Event Gateway, part of the Serverless Platform, to build REST APIs and respond to custom events.

## Source excerpt

How to use the Serverless Event Gateway (part of the Serverless Platform) to build REST APIs and react to custom events.