@forest-fire/fire-layer

Fire Layer

This repo produces a AWS Layer which includes the baseline of requirements that'll need in AWS to use apps leveraging Firemodel. The top level dependencies which this layer will provide includes:

• Firemodel
• Universal Fire
• firebase-admin (from google)
• Firemock
• Faker

Your Lambda functions which include this layer will find these top level dependencies along with their dependency graphs are what you will find in this layer in the /opt/node_modules filesystem. In order for your functions import statements to properly resolve this path you will need to ensure that the NODE_PATH ENV variable is set to include the mount directory above.

Serverless Framework

If you are using the serverless framework, you'd simply add something like the following to your serverless.yaml file:

functions:
    MyFunction:
        layers:
            - 'arn-path-to-this-layer'
        environment:
            NODE_PATH: "./node_modules:/opt/node_modules"

alternatively if you're using this layer in many places, or have other layers which drop NPM deps into opt/node_modules then you can just add it to your global environment:

provider:
    name: aws
    runtime: nodejs14.x
    environment:
        NODE_PATH: "./node_modules:/opt/node_modules"

You're actual config will clearly vary based on your needs but a common strategy is to have a env.yaml where you'll put all your non-secret ENV variables and then refer to this file in your master serverless.yaml like so:

provider:
    environment: '${file(serverless-config/env.yml):${self:custom.stage}}'

This then allows you configure your env.yml with per-stage as well as global ENV variables and tends to work much better than trying to fit it all into the serverless.yml. Here's an example of what it might look like:

global: &all_stages
    MY_SILLY_API: "xxyyzz234324"

dev:
    <<: *all_stages
    FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL: "https://test.firebase.com"

prod:
    <<: *all_stages
    FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL: "https://prod.firebase.com"

Deployment

You can either reference the ARN of this layer's formal deployment or just deploy it locally into your own account. To deploy it to your own account:

# install local dev-deps
yarn
# builds layer and deploys using serverless framework
yarn deploy

Otherwise you can just refer to the following ARNs:

• 0.58
  • description: the latest versions of Firemodel and Universal Fire on the 0.58.x versions; this includes the latest firebase-admin (9.5.x)
  • ARN: