Backstage functions-sandbox

functions-sandbox is the engine behind Backstage Functions and executes code in isolation (a sandbox). It could be used for both running code in production as well as testing the deployed functions (before they are deployed, hopefully).

$ npm install @globocom/functions-sandbox

Example of usage

const Sandbox = require('backstage-functions-sandbox');

const mySandbox = new Sandbox({
  env: {
     MY_VAR: 'TRUE', // environment variable will be available on Backstage.env.MY_VAR
  },
  globalModules: [ 'path' ], // put all available modules that will allow to import
  asyncTimeout: 10000,
  syncTimeout: 300,
});

const myCode = mySandbox.compileCode('test.js', `
  async function main(req, res) {
    const result = req.body.x * req.body.y;
    const name = Backstage.env.MY_VAR;
    // you could call await here
    return { name, result };
  }
`);

// express.Request compatible
const req = {
  headers: {},
  query: {},
  body: { x: 10, y: 10}
};

mySandbox.runScript(myCode, req).then(({status, body}) => {
  console.info('Result:', status, body);
}, (err) => {
  console.error('Error:', err);
});

Configuration

Name	Description	Example
env	Environment variables used by deployed functions	{ MY_VAR: 'Some value' }
syncTimeout	Timeout when executing synchronous functions	syncTimeout: 300
asyncTimeout	Timeout when executing asynchronous functions	asyncTimeout: 1000
globalModules	Modules that will be available to all functions	globalModules: [ 'path/to/module' ]

Objects

req -> Request

Property	Type	Description
headers	property	HTTP Headers received from this request
query	property	HTTP parsed querystring
body	property	HTTP body decoded from json

res -> Response

Property	Type	Description
set(header, value)	method	set a HTTP Header value
status(statusCode)	method	change status code of this response, default: 200
send(body)	method	finalize the response sending body to the client
notModified()	method	finalize the response sending 304 without body
badRequest(msg)	method	finalize the response sending 400 with error msg
notFound(msg)	method	finalize the response sending 404 with error msg
unprocessableEntity(msg)	method	finalize the response sending 422 with error msg
internalServerError(msg)	method	finalize the response sending 500 with error msg

Pre-built exceptions

Class	Description
NotModified()	finalize the response sending 304 without body
BadRequest(msg)	finalize the response sending 400 with error msg
NotFound(msg)	finalize the response sending 404 with error msg
UnprocessableEntity(msg)	finalize the response sending 422 with error msg
InternalServerError(msg)	finalize the response sending 500 with error msg