@aws-lite/client

aws-lite

aws-lite is a simple, extremely fast, extensible AWS client for Node.js.

(It's got good error reporting, too.)

Who made this?

aws-sdk is developed and maintained by the folks at OpenJS Foundation Architect. We <3 AWS!

Why not use aws-sdk / @aws-sdk/*?

Amazon has historically done a great job of maintaining its SDKs. However, its JavaScript SDKs are huge, with lots of generated code. This results in things like very slow instantiation (example: >400ms to load a single AWS client in SDK v2, and >500ms in v3), and reporting errors without usable stack traces.

We built aws-lite exists to provide a simpler, faster, more stable position from which to work with AWS services in Node.js.

Install

Install the client:

npm i @aws-lite/client

You can use the client as-is to quickly interact with AWS service APIs, or extend it with specific service plugins like so:

npm i @aws-lite/plugin-dynamodb

Quickstart

/**
 * Instantiate a client
 * This is a synchronous operation that will attempt to load your AWS credentials, local configuration, region settings, etc.
 */
import awsLite from '@aws-lite/client'
const aws = awsLite({ region: 'us-west-1' })

/**
 * Reads
 * Fire a GET request by specifying an AWS service name and endpoint
 */
await aws({
  service: 'lambda',
  endpoint: `/2015-03-31/functions/my-lambda-name/configuration`,
})
// {
//   FunctionName: 'my-lambda-name',
//   Runtime: 'nodejs18.x',
//   ...
// }

/**
 * Writes
 * POST JSON to an endpoint by adding a payload property
 */
await aws({
  service: 'lambda',
  endpoint: `/2015-03-31/functions/my-lambda-name/invocations`,
  payload: { ok: true },
})
// ... whatever your Lambda returned

Options

Configuration options

(Coming soon!)

Client options

(Coming soon!)

Plugins

(Coming soon!)