Serverless Framework Part 5: Pulling in a node package

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:31:00 +0100

This is the final part of an ongoing series about the Serverless framework.

In the previous posts, the PasswordGenerator always returned ‘Password’. Instead each date should corresponds to a new unique password. We’ll make use of the Crypto-js node package and we’ll see that the AWS lambda copes just fine.

Installing a node package

Pull in the crypto-js package into the serverless component.

$ cd nodejscomponent/
$ npm install crypto-js --save
crypto-js@3.1.6 node_modules/crypto-js

Now we need the typescript definitions. Watch out there are two different TypeScript typings called cryptojs and crypto-js. The first one is more complete.

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Serverless Framework Part 5: Pulling in a node package

Installing a node package