Using Babel with Claudia.js

The AWS Node.js execution runtime still uses Node 4.3.2, and many modern ES6 features are not available there (notably, imports and async/await). You can use Babel to transpile more modern ES6 code into ES2015.

This example shows how to create a simple project that is using async/await and import, transpile it to promises and deploy it using Claudia.

The transpilation output folder (in this case bin) is excluded from version control in .gitignore, but explicitly listed in the files section of package.json, so it will be deployed by Claudia.

Usage

1. Run npm install to install the dependencies
2. Run npm run transpile to see the transpiled code in /bin directory
3. Run npm run create to transpile the code and deploy it to lambda
4. To update the code run npm run update, it will transpile and update the code