Serverless plugin for zero-config Typescript support
- Zero-config: Works out of the box without the need to install any other compiler or plugins
- Supports ES2015 syntax + features (
export
,import
,async
,await
,Promise
, ...) - Supports
sls package
,sls deploy
andsls deploy function
- Supports
sls invoke local
+--watch
mode - Integrates nicely with
serverless-offline
yarn add --dev serverless-plugin-typescript typescript
# or
npm install -D serverless-plugin-typescript typescript
Add the following plugin to your serverless.yml
:
plugins:
- serverless-plugin-typescript
See example folder for a minimal example.
The default tsconfig.json
file used by the plugin looks like this:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"preserveConstEnums": true,
"strictNullChecks": true,
"sourceMap": true,
"allowJs": true,
"target": "es5",
"outDir": ".build",
"moduleResolution": "node",
"lib": ["es2015"],
"rootDir": "./"
}
}
Note 1: The
outDir
androotDir
options cannot be overwritten.
Note 2: Don't confuse the
tsconfig.json
in this repository with the one mentioned above.
All files from package/include
will be included in the final build file. See Exclude/Include
When using with Google Cloud Functions via the serverless-google-cloudfunctions
plugin, you simply have to provide a main
field in your package.json
:
{
// ...
"main": "handler.js",
// ..
}
And this plugin will automatically compile your typescript correctly. Note
that the field must refer to the compiled file name, namely, ending with a .js
extension.
If a main
field was not found, then this plugin will use index.js
. Before
compilation begins, it will check to see that the file indicated exists with a
.ts
extension before actually trying to compile it.
The normal Serverless deploy procedure will automatically compile with Typescript:
- Create the Serverless project with
serverless create -t aws-nodejs
- Install Serverless Typescript as above
- Deploy with
serverless deploy
The plugin integrates very well with serverless-offline to simulate AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway locally.
Add the plugins to your serverless.yml
file and make sure that serverless-plugin-typescript
precedes serverless-offline
as the order is important:
plugins:
...
- serverless-plugin-typescript
...
- serverless-offline
...
Run serverless offline
or serverless offline start
to start the Lambda/API simulation.
In comparison to serverless offline
, the start
command will fire an init
and a end
lifecycle hook which is needed for serverless-offline
and e.g. serverless-dynamodb-local
to switch off resources (see below)
Configure your service the same as mentioned above, but additionally add the serverless-dynamodb-local
plugin as follows:
plugins:
- serverless-plugin-typescript
- serverless-dynamodb-local
- serverless-offline
Run serverless offline start
.
You can reduce the clutter generated by serverless-offline
with --dontPrintOutput
and
disable timeouts with --noTimeout
.
To run your compiled functions locally you can:
$ serverless invoke local --function <function-name>
Options are:
--function
or-f
(required) is the name of the function to run--watch
- recompile and run a function locally on source changes--path
or-p
(optional) path to JSON or YAML file holding input data--data
or-d
(optional) input data
You can easily enable support for source-maps (making stacktraces easier to read) by installing and using the following plugin:
yarn add --dev source-map-support
// inside of your function
import 'source-map-support/register'
If you are using webpack (most likely). Add devtool: 'source-map'
to webpack.config.js
:
module.exports = {
.... snip ....
devtool: 'source-map',
.... snip ....
}
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