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Yeah, I took a look at using a serverless framework for a hobby project, and it was just a real pain to get started at all, let alone develop a whole applicatio

by Latty 6y ago

Yeah, I took a look at using a serverless framework for a hobby project, and it was just a real pain to get started at all, let alone develop a whole application in. I tried AWS, and then IBM's offering which is based on an open source (Apache OpenWhisk) project, thinking that it might be easier to work with, but that was also a pain. I just lost interest as I was only checking it out. For something constantly marketed on the ease of not having to manage servers, it fell a long way short of "easy".

com2kid 6y ago
> Yeah, I took a look at using a serverless framework for a hobby project, and it was just a real pain to get started at all, let alone develop a whole application in. Look into Firebase functions. Drop some JS in a folder, export them from an index.js file and you have yourself some endpoints. > exports.helloWorld = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => { response.send("Hello from Firebase!"); }); The amount of work AWS has put in front of Lambdas confuses me. Firebase does it right. You can go from "never having written a REST endpoint" to "real code" in less than 20 minutes. New endpoints can be created as fast as you can export functions from an index.js file.
- iudqnolq 6y ago
  And if you need a dependency that has a sub dependency with a subdependency that uses a native module prepare for poorly defined -fun- hell getting it to work. A surprising amount of standard is libs do.
  - iudqnolq 6y ago
    *standard js libs (as in commonly used)
    - com2kid 6y ago
      Eh, you win some you lose some. Being able to throw up a new REST endpoint in under 10 minutes with 0 config is really cool though. And Firebase Functions are priced to work as daily drivers, they can front an entire application and not cost an insane amount of $, per single ms pricing. Lambda's are a lot more complicated.

by Latty 6y ago

com2kid 6y ago

> Yeah, I took a look at using a serverless framework for a hobby project, and it was just a real pain to get started at all, let alone develop a whole application in. Look into Firebase functions. Drop some JS in a folder, export them from an index.js file and you have yourself some endpoints. > exports.helloWorld = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => { response.send("Hello from Firebase!"); }); The amount of work AWS has put in front of Lambdas confuses me. Firebase does it right. You can go from "never having written a REST endpoint" to "real code" in less than 20 minutes. New endpoints can be created as fast as you can export functions from an index.js file.

iudqnolq 6y ago
And if you need a dependency that has a sub dependency with a subdependency that uses a native module prepare for poorly defined -fun- hell getting it to work. A surprising amount of standard is libs do.
- iudqnolq 6y ago
  *standard js libs (as in commonly used)
  - com2kid 6y ago
    Eh, you win some you lose some. Being able to throw up a new REST endpoint in under 10 minutes with 0 config is really cool though. And Firebase Functions are priced to work as daily drivers, they can front an entire application and not cost an insane amount of $, per single ms pricing. Lambda's are a lot more complicated.