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Instantly deploy functions to the cloud.

The fastest way to get a scalable service up and online.

A powerful infrastructure abstraction built with the AWS CDK.

"Wow, you are going to be so productive now." --not-so-anonymous user feedback

Usage

Clone this project. It's yours now!

The cdk.ts file contains a convenient wrapper around the aws-cdk.

The router.ts file contains a generic lambda handler that can handle any type of event.

You can run this to deploy:

npm install && npm run deploy

Just make sure you have AWS credentials locally as well as node and npm.

The following examples will be deployed as part of a single CloudFormation stack:

• hello.ts, a plain old AWS Lambda Function handler
• multiple.ts, a function that responds to api, queue, and table stream messages
• express.ts, a function that is configured as an express app
• write.ts, a function that writes to a DynamoDB table
• eval.ts, a function that spawns a process to evaluate a javascript expression

What does it do?

It contains some convenience functions that are used at deploy time to get you some cloud goodness!

Every referenced function will be deployed along with its associated cloud infrastructure (SQS Queue, DynamoDB Table).

A single API Gateway HTTP API and S3 Bucket will be created. Each function gets its own route in the API and private path in the bucket.

• It deploys an API -> Lambda Function, so that you can respond to API requests.
• It deploys SQS -> Lambda Function, so you can react to queue events.
• It deploys DynamoDB -> Lambda Function, so you can react to table stream events.

All from the same function. A powerful paradigm and simple programming model.

All permissions are properly created and assigned as well. So:

• Only a single Lambda Function can access its own DynamoDB table.
• Multiple Lambda Functions can read from S3, but each function can only read from its own specific path in the bucket.

How can I add more than one function?

In the src/infrastructure.ts file, just configure the paths to your lambda function entrypoints.

Diagram

Benchmarks

Generates <2KB lambda functions with no runtime dependencies

• deploy no changes: 0m4.446s
• deploy with changes: 0m46.369s | 1m6.943s

Support

That's all there is to it!

Open a GitHub issue to ask a question, report a bug, raise a concern, or request a new feature.

Also, your question may already be answered on the following Hacker News thread.

Thanks for reading, and for making it all the way down here!