pnpm-serverless-demo

A small demo repo to show basic configuration to make pnpm work with serverless framework

Gettings started

Run:

pnpm i
sls invoke local -f quotes # to test locally
sls deploy # Look at bundled .js inside .serverless folder

Learnings

• pnpm creates hardlinks to global pnpm store in node_modules
• You can find the store's location by running pnpm store path
• serverless-typescript-plugin converts tscode to js but does not do bundling. Requires eiher serverless-plugin-include-dependencies (includes node_modules) or serverless-esbuild (bundler like webpack but faster)

Problems faced

pnpm does not work with serverless-plugin-typescript by default

• When using pnpm with serverless, transitive dependencies (e.g., form-data that axios needs) is not included in final bundle by default
• This is be resolved by either:
  • bundling before deploying (e.g., with serverless-esbuild pluging)
  • create .npmrc with node-linker=hoisted property. Source

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Invalid option in build() call: "incremental"

• Issue with esbuild plugin. Details here

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