lambda-server NPM module
A module for providing some basic services to serverles services implemented by AWS Lambda. For the time being, the server only intitializes a the STACK_NAME environment variable to contain the Cloudformation stack name (based on the function name, e.g. ABC-functionName-123456 => STACK_NAME=ABC). More logic can and will be added later.
Usage
Package your lambda function into a module lambdaFunction.js with syntax
var lambdaServer; { lambdaServer = server; } { if ERROR console; ; } moduleexports = exports = init: init handleRequest: handleRequest ;
The index.js for your lambda-server based service would be e.g.
var server = ; var lambdaFunction = ; server; moduleexports = exports = handler : serverhandler ;
An alternative error handler can be registered (e.g. for logging / notifications) by passing the error handler function in 'errorHandler' during lambda-server-init. e.g.
var server = ; var lambdaFunction = ; var { ; } server; moduleexports = exports = handler : serverhandler ;
TODO
Ideas for future versions:
- hook for keeping the function awake triggered via scheduled event
- generic method to manage configuration data for Lambda-based services
- functions to ease deployment to Lambda
Release History
- 2016/01/12 - v0.9.2 - Invoke errorHandler also on Exceptions
- 2015/11/30 - v0.9.1 - Added capability to register alternative error Handler
- 2015/10/23 - v0.9.0 - Initial version of module
License
Copyright (c) 2015 SC5, licensed for users and contributors under MIT license. https://github.com/SC5/lambda-server/blob/master/LICENSE