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Serverless Application Deployment

Deploy your Lambda Function in less than 3 click.

Introduction​

In this tutorial you will learn how to deploy your Lambda function application by creating a basic serverless application.

Create Serveless application​

Get started by creating a new react application using vite.

What you'll need​

  • Node.js version 16.14 or above:
    • When installing Node.js, you are recommended to check all checkboxes related to dependencies.

Intialize your project​

Initialize a new project using the classic npm init script.

The classic script will automatically create a package.json file that will hold information about your project: File in your project information by following the prompt

npm init

You can type this command into Command Prompt, Powershell, Terminal, or any other integrated terminal of your code editor.

Install swiftbase cli​

Install the swiftbase cli using your node package manager:

npm i swiftbase_cli

Bootstrap your project​

After installing the swiftbase cli you can use the cli to bootstrap your project.The cli will be the tool that you will use to intract with the swiftbase backend.

NB. When bootstapping your application swiftbase will ask you which services you want to include in your project and since this tutorial is about Lambda function deployment make sure to select the lambda service.

Bootstrap your project by simply typing swiftbase in you terminal, for more information follow Basics.

swiftbase init

Project directory

By default Swiftbase cli will create a function directory in you project root and that directory will contain your lambda function entry file named as handler.js. This is the file that will receive the request from the client of this function and it is from this file that you can return the a response to the client.

NB. You can structure your code as you wish but the handler.js file must always be present in the function directory.

Deploy your lambda function​

Once you have written your code you can deploy you project by just typing the magic word swiftbase into your terminal.

swiftbase

or if you are using powershell

npx swiftbase

Swiftbase cli will prompt you on which services you would like to deploy if multiple services are configure. For the purpose of this demo make sure to select lambda service and confirm your wish to deploy.

After confirmation swiftbase will deploy your lambda function and it will display the url to your project in the terminal. using the url you can interact with your live function !!!.