Many existing faas services provide system packages in the execution environment that allow functions to use them without the need for them to be included a package.json. This would definitely make build times faster, since if the function itself has no explicit dependencies, there is no reason to use npm install.
Many existing faas services provide system packages in the execution environment that allow functions to use them without the need for them to be included a package.json. This would definitely make build times faster, since if the function itself has no explicit dependencies, there is no reason to use
npm install
.An example: Google Cloud Functions