Allow AWS Node js v6.10

[lteacher]

This is a Feature Proposal

Description

Hi,

AWS released support for Node v6.10

Probably I'm super quick because it was just announced today. Anyway thought I could just add this issue in case anyone didn't notice that announcement.

For feature proposals:

• What is the use case that should be solved. The more detail you describe this in the easier it is to understand for us.

Allow the use of nodejs6.10 in serverless.yaml

• If there is additional config how would it look

provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs6.10

[lteacher]

Looking briefly with no deep knowledge, maybe its just the invoke local which does the explicit check? aside from potential doc changes.

[eahefnawy]

Thanks @lteacher ... we were just discussing this internally. You can already start using v6 right away just like you described. I tried it out and it's working. Is it not working for you?

[eahefnawy]

The question we currently have is whether this should be the default runtime or not. What you think?

[owendall]

👍

[lteacher]

Hey @eahefnawy. Yeah I think it looks ok but just the invoke local functionality was checking and failing. Ref #3403.

Dunno about the default. Thinking its a better choice even though just added because LTS for v4 is ending next month anyway.

[eahefnawy]

Yep we def need that PR! (Thanks @assaflavie 😊 )

[buggy]

@eahefnawy Would it be worth changing the -t option from aws-nodejs to aws-nodejs4 then adding an aws-nodejs6 option? This would allow people to easily chose the version they want and save future discussions about the default version. At this stage we don't know how long Amazon is going to continue supporting Node 4 even once official support for the LTS has finished.

[pmuens]

Would it be worth changing the -t option from aws-nodejs to aws-nodejs4 then adding an aws-nodejs6 option?

Good idea. We can then remove the old template later on when it's deprecated by AWS. The only fear I have is that old tutorials etc. won't work anymore if the user enters a template for node.js w/o the version attached.

We could make it in a way that the aws-nodejs always defaults to the most recent node version and aws-nodejs4.3 is for version 4.3. This way old tutorials etc. would still work...

I'd also like to drop the default property for runtime and would make it mandatory because there are so many different runtimes and why do we default to node.js instead of python (Obvious, but valid question)...

[shavo007]

this in the next release guys? Or can i use it now?

[buggy]

@shavo007 You can use Node 6.10 now. Just change the runtime in your serverless.yml to nodejs6.10. The rest of this issue for a future release.