AWS serverless lambda development kit

minimalist development setup for lambdas

what does this starter do ?

• the starter gives you a way to develop lambda functions locally and then package them to be deployed to the aws lambda runtime
• the starter does not automatically publish/deploy the lambdas it only packages the lambda code and common code into .zip files to be deployed they need to deployed manually

how to use the starter ?

• write your functions in the src/functions directory
• every directory in the functions directory is treated as an individual function and is packaged saperately
• write common code in src/common directory this directory is packaged along with node_modules into one layer.zip file and this is supposed to deployed as a layer in lambda
• write tests in the tests directory as shown with the hello example these are not packaged with your code
• use the build:layers and build:functions to build/package the .zip files
• every function is packaged into its own .zip file with the name same as the folder name. This zip file contains the contents of the function folder
• then take the .zip files from the build directory and deploy them to lambda
• make sure you setup NODE_ENV to production after deploying the lambda function so the common directory is loaded correctly
• look at the given example function and tests to get a better understanding
• some utilities for server api are included in the utils folder just as an example of how to use code common to multiple functions

features to be added

• s3 sync capability
• deployment capability