Hello! 😎
This is a Node.js (v8) boilerplate/template for the IBM OpenWhisk platform using Serverless - it's set up with a basic serveless.yml to get up and running quickly with a Cloud Function and API Gateway.
Feel free to use this, but I only created this a a quick test and reference point.
I maily followed this guide on the serverless site, plus some other bits and pieces. Part of which is installing the IBM Cloud CLI.
Before the service can be deployed, you need to have an IBM Bluemix account.
Once you have an account, you'll need to create an organisation and Cloud Foundry Space - this will be for a specific region.
Once you've done this, you can login via Terminal to create your .wskprops file - this will be used by Serverless to deploy to the platform.
bx login -a "<region>" -o "<organisation>" -s "<cloud foundry space>"
I initially had a few issues setting this up when I was following the Serverless guide, but following these steps seemed to work.
I've included two simple NPM scripts to deploy to either a dev or prod version.
For example, to deploy to dev, run npm run deploy/dev.
Once Serverless is complete, in the output, you'll notice the API Gateway (api-gw) endpoint that you can use to hit the function.
To use Serverless with the OpenWhisk platform, the serverless-openwhisk is required. Due to an open issue, this must be installed globally with Serverless.
npm install --global serverless serverless-openwhisk
- Investigate the use of Webpack (v4) for bundling - I know it reduces the size of the package, but does it give any performance benefits? 🤔