Typescript plus AWS Lambda

No BS Typescript Lambda Boilerplate

This boilerplate focuses on keeping configuration to a minimum yet supporting all latest Typescript features for making it as easy and worry-free as possible to get started building a performance optimized AWS Lambda Function.

This project is open to updates by its users, I ensure that PRs are relevant to the community. In other words, if you find a bug or want a new feature, please help us by becoming one of the contributors ✌️ ! See the contributing section.

🚨 Before continuing:

If you're creating an API using Express.js consider looking at my No BS Typescript Server Boilerplate
If you're creating a Javascript/Typescript module consider looking at my No BS Typescript Boilerplate
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How to get started using this boilerplate

The logic of this repo is structured in such a way that all you need to worry about is placing your code in the src directory (using src/index.ts as entry point).

Development and build scripts

I chose Rollup to handle the transpiling, compression, and any other transformations needed to get your Typescript code running as quickly and performant as possible.

Development

yarn dev

NOTE: This command depends on you having Docker installed in your development environment.

When run, this script will build your lambda and run a docker container with the image lambci/lambda which is a sandboxed local environment that replicates the live AWS Lambda environment almost identically.

It also uses nodemon to rebuild and restart the docker container automagically whenever you edit your typescript code, a.k.a. hot reload :fire:

Once running you can test your lambda by invoking it using aws-cli:

aws lambda invoke \
  --endpoint http://localhost:9001 \
  --no-sign-request \
  --function-name myfunction \
  --payload '{}' \
  output.json

IMPORTANT: If you are using AWS CLI v2 you must add the --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out argument and value, as such:

aws lambda invoke \
  --endpoint http://localhost:9001 \
  --no-sign-request \
  --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
  --function-name myfunction \
  --payload '{}' \
  output.json

I have also provided a mock payload (mock-payload.json) that mimics an event sent by API Gateway, which you can use by replacing the value of the --payload argument with a file:// definition:

aws lambda invoke \
  --endpoint http://localhost:9001 \
  --no-sign-request \
  --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
  --function-name myfunction \
  --payload file://mock-payload.json \
  output.json

Note: to get payloads for different AWS Lambda triggers, simply upload this lambda with a console.log(even);, then just copy the output from the resulting CloudWatch logs.

Finally, you can also test your function using an HTTP request with Postman, Insomnia, or even Curl, like so:

curl -d '{}' http://localhost:9001/2015-03-31/functions/myfunction/invocations

Build

yarn build

This command will build the dist/index.js bundle of your code (uglified and tree-shaken so it loads/runs faster), it installs the node modules specified under the "dependencies" section in the package.json (no "devDependencies"), and finally packages it all into a function.zip file that you can upload to your aws account.

Deploy (create) function in AWS

# ================
# Config variables
# ================

STAGE=d # d - dev | t - test | s - staging | u - uat | p - production
LAMBDA_NAME=$STAGE-$(cat package.json | grep "\"name\": \"[^\"]*\"," | sed 's/.*"name": "\([^"]*\)".*/\1/')

# ===============
# Create function
# ===============

yarn build

LAMBDA_ROLE_ARN=$(aws iam create-role \
  --role-name $LAMBDA_NAME \
  --assume-role-policy-document '{"Version": "2012-10-17","Statement": [{ "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": {"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"}, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"}]}' \
  --query "Role.Arn" --output=text) \
&& sleep 15 \
&& echo "Attaching execution policy to role with ARN: '$LAMBDA_ROLE_ARN'..." \
&& aws iam attach-role-policy \
  --role-name $LAMBDA_NAME \
  --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole \
&& sleep 15 \
&& echo "Creating lambda '$LAMBDA_NAME' with role (ARN): '$LAMBDA_ROLE_ARN'..." \
&& aws lambda create-function \
  --function-name $LAMBDA_NAME \
  --handler index.handler \
  --runtime nodejs12.x \
  --role $LAMBDA_ROLE_ARN \
  --zip-file fileb://dist/function.zip

Deploy (update) function in AWS

# ================
# Config variables
# ================

STAGE=d # d - dev | t - test | s - staging | u - uat | p - production
LAMBDA_NAME=$STAGE-$(cat package.json | grep "\"name\": \"[^\"]*\"," | sed 's/.*"name": "\([^"]*\)".*/\1/')

# ===============
# Update function
# ===============

yarn build && aws lambda update-function-code --function-name $LAMBDA_NAME --zip-file fileb://dist/function.zip

Contributing

Yes, thank you! This plugin is community-driven, most of its features are from different authors. Please update the docs and tests and add your name to the package.json file.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Jean Lescure}
🚧 💻 📓 ⚠️ 💡 📖

_{Diana Lescure}
📖 👀 🎨