boson-project / buildpacks

Boson Project function buildpacks
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Consider adding system packages that are available to Node.js functions #17

Open lance opened 4 years ago

lance commented 4 years ago

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