Serverless Webpack

A Serverless v1.0 plugin to build your lambda functions with Webpack.

Install

npm install serverless-webpack

Add the plugin to your serverless.yml file:

plugins:
  - serverless-webpack

By default the plugin will look for a webpack.config.js in the service directory. In alternative you can specify a different file or configuration in the serverless.yml with:

custom:
  webpack: ./folder/my-webpack.config.js

Note that, if the output configuration is not set, it will automatically be generated to write bundles in the .webpack directory.

By default, the plugin will try to bundle all dependencies. However, you don't want to include all modules in some cases such as selectively import, excluding builtin package (aws-sdk) and handling webpack-incompatible modules. In this case, you can enable external-module-auto-packaging feature by setting webpackIncludeModules custom key to be true and defines your webpack externals in webpack.config.json. All modules stated in externals will be excluded from bundled files. If an excluded module is stated as dependencies in package.json, it will be packed into node_modules in artifact.

// webpack.config.js
var nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals')

modules.export = {
  // we use webpack-node-externals to excludes all node deps. You can manually set
  // the externals too.
  externals: [nodeExternals()],
}

# serverless.yml
custom:
  webpackIncludeModules: true # enable auto-packing

By default, the plugin will use the package.json file in working directory, If you want to use a different package conf, set packagePath to your custom package.json. eg:

# serverless.yml
custom:
  webpackIncludeModules:
    packagePath: '../package.json' # relative path to custom package.json file.

Noted that only relative path is supported now.

You can find an example setup in the examples folder.

Usage

Automatic bundling

The normal Serverless deploy procedure will automatically bundle with Webpack:

• Create the Serverless project with serverless create -t aws-node
• Install Serverless Webpack as above
• Deploy with serverless deploy

Simulate API Gateway locally

To start a local server that will act like the API Gateway use the following command. Your code will be reloaded upon change so that every request to your local server will serve the latest code.

serverless webpack serve

Options are:

• --port or -p (optional) The local server port. Defaults to 8000

Run a function locally

To run your bundled functions locally you can:

serverless webpack invoke --function <function-name>

Options are:

• --function or -f (required) is the name of the function to run
• --path or -p (optional) is a JSON file path used as the function input event

Run a function locally on source changes

Or to run a function every time the source files change use watch:

serverless webpack watch --function <function-name> --path event.json

Options are:

• --function or -f (required) is the name of the function to run
• --path or -p (optional) is a JSON file path used as the function input event

Bundle with webpack

To just bundle and see the output result use:

serverless webpack --out dist

Options are:

• --out or -o (optional) The output directory. Defaults to .webpack.

Example with Babel

In the examples folder there is a Serverless project using this plugin with Babel. To try it, from inside the example folder:

• npm install to install dependencies
• serverless webpack run -f hello to run the example function