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The goal is to make it easy to work with Lambda's with modern ES6 without being dependent on having the most state of the art node runtime available in the final deployment environment and with a build that can compile all modules into a single lambda file.
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## Installation
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Since v1.0.0 the dependencies were upgraded to Webpack 4 and Babel 7.
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We recommend installing locally rather than globally: `yarn add -D netlify-lambda`
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## Installation
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At the present moment you may have to also install peer dependencies [as documented here](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/issues/35) - we will correct this for the next release when we update our [webpack and babel versions](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/pull/15).
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**We recommend installing locally** rather than globally: `yarn add -D netlify-lambda`. This will ensure your build scripts don't assume a global install which is better for your CI/CD (for example with Netlify's buildbot).
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## Usage
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netlify-lambda build <folder>
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Both depends on a `netlify.toml` file being present in your project and configuring functions for deployment.
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**IMPORTANT**: Both commands depend on a `netlify.toml` file being present in your project and configuring functions for deployment.
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The `serve` function will start a dev server and a file watcher for the specified folder and route requests to the relevant function at:
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The `build` function will run a single build of the functions in the folder.
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There are additional options, introduced later:
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```bash
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-h --help
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-c --config
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-p --port
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-s --static
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```
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## Using with `create-react-app`, Gatsby, and other development servers
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`react-scripts` (the underlying library for `create-react-app`) and other popular development servers often set up catchall serving for you; in other words, if you try to request a route that doesn't exist, the dev server will try to serve you `/index.html`. This is problematic when you are trying to hit a local API endpoint like `netlify-lambda` sets up for you - your browser will attempt to parse the `index.html` file as JSON. This is why you may see this error:
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`Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0`
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If this desribes your situation, then you need to proxy for local development. Read on. Don't worry it's easier than it looks.
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### Proxying for local development
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When your function is deployed on Netlify, it will be available at `/.netlify/functions/function-name` for any given deploy context. It is advantageous to proxy the `netlify-lambda serve` development server to the same path on your primary development server.
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> ⚠️IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THIS ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE CORS ISSUES⚠️
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Say you are running `webpack-serve` on port 8080 and `netlify-lambda serve` on port 9000. Mounting `localhost:9000` to `/.netlify/functions/` on your `webpack-serve` server (`localhost:8080/.netlify/functions/`) will closely replicate what the final production environment will look like during development, and will allow you to assume the same function url path in development and in production.
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When your function is deployed on Netlify, it will be available at `/.netlify/functions/function-name` for any given deploy context. It is advantageous to proxy the `netlify-lambda serve`development server to the same path on your primary development server.
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See [netlify/create-react-app-lambda](https://github.com/netlify/create-react-app-lambda/blob/3b5fac5fcbcba0e775b755311d29242f0fc1d68e/package.json#L19) for an example of how to do this.
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Say you are running `webpack-serve` on port 8080 and `netlify-lambda serve` on port 9000. Mounting `localhost:9000` to `/.netlify/functions/` on your `webpack-serve` server (`localhost:8080/.netlify/functions/`) will closely replicate what the final production environment will look like during development, and will allow you to assume the same function url path in development and in production.
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- If you are using with `create-react-app`, see [netlify/create-react-app-lambda](https://github.com/netlify/create-react-app-lambda/blob/f0e94f1d5a42992a2b894bfeae5b8c039a177dd9/src/setupProxy.js) for an example of how to do this with `create-react-app`. [setupProxy is partially documented in the CRA docs](https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/proxying-api-requests-in-development#configuring-the-proxy-manually).
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- If you are using Gatsby, see [their Advanced Proxying docs](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/api-proxy/#advanced-proxying). This is implemented in the [JAMstack Hackathon Starter](https://github.com/sw-yx/jamstack-hackathon-starter).
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- If you are using Next.js, see [this issue for how to proxy](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/pull/28#issuecomment-439675503).
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- If you are using with Angular CLI, see the instructions below.
Obviously you need to run up `netlify-lambda` & `angular` at the same time.
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</details>
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## Webpack Configuration
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By default the webpack configuration uses `babel-loader` to load all js files. Any `.babelrc` in the directory `netlify-lambda` is run from will be respected. If no `.babelrc` is found, a [few basic settings are used](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/blob/master/lib/build.js#L11-L15a).
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If you need to use additional webpack modules or loaders, you can specify an additional webpack config with the `-c` option when running either `serve` or `build`.
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If you need to use additional webpack modules or loaders, you can specify an additional webpack config with the `-c`/`--config` option when running either `serve` or `build`. See this issue for an example of [how to write a webpack override file](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/issues/64).
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The additional webpack config will be merged into the default config via [webpack-merge's](https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-merge)`merge.smart` method.
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### Babel configuration
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The default webpack configuration uses `babel-loader` with a [few basic settings](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/blob/master/lib/build.js#L19-L33).
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However, if any `.babelrc` is found in the directory `netlify-lambda` is run from, it will be used instead of the default one. If you need to run different babel versions for your lambda and for your app, [check this issue](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/issues/34) to override your webpack babel-loader.
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### Use with TypeScript
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We added `.ts` and `.mjs` support recently - [check here for the PR and usage tips](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/pull/76).
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1. Install `@babel/preset-typescript`
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2. Create a custom `.babelrc` file:
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3. (Optional) if you have `@types/aws-lambda` installed, your lambda functions can use the community typings for `Handler, Context, Callback`. See the typescript instructions in [create-react-app-lambda](https://github.com/netlify/create-react-app-lambda/blob/master/README.md#typescript) for an example.
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### --static option
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If you need an escape hatch and are building your lambda in some way that is incompatible with our build process, you can skip the build with the `-s` or `--static` flag. [More info here](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/pull/62).
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## Debugging
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To debug lambdas, prepend the `serve` command with [npm's package runner npx](https://medium.com/@maybekatz/introducing-npx-an-npm-package-runner-55f7d4bd282b)`npx --node-arg=--inspect netlify-lambda serve ...`. Additionally:
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1. make sure that sourcemaps are built along the way (e.g. in the webpack configuration and the `tsconfig.json` if typescript is used)
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2. webpack's uglification is turned off with `optimization: { minimize: false }`. If using VSCode, it is likely that the `sourceMapPathOverrides` have to be adapted for breakpoints to work.
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Netlify Functions [run in Node v8.10](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/04/03/node.js-8.10-now-available-in-netlify-functions/) and you may need to run the same version to mirror the environment locally. Also make sure to check that you aren't [committing one of these common Node 8 mistakes in Lambda!](https://serverless.com/blog/common-node8-mistakes-in-lambda/)
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Don't forget to search our issues in case someone has run into a similar problem you have!
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## Netlify Identity
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Netlify Identity is [not supported at the moment](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/issues/51) inside `netlify-lambda` function emulation, but for now you can [read the docs](https://www.netlify.com/docs/functions/#identity-and-functions) on how they should work.
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## Other community approaches
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If you wish to serve the full website from lambda, [check this issue](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/issues/36).
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If you wish to run this server for testing, [check this issue](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-lambda/issues/49).
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If you wish to emulate more Netlify functionality locally, [check this repo](https://github.com/8eecf0d2/netlify-local).
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All of the above are community maintained and not officially supported by Netlify.
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