h3 VS sst

H3 is a small and delightful webserver. It honestly won me over the second I saw how simple the server side implementation of websockets was. It's actually so good, it even has bindings for uploadthing

Same, I'll probably move to https://github.com/unjs/h3 since it's used anyway in Nuxt (which I use for other projects)

import formidable from 'formidable'; /* global defineEventHandler, getRequestHeaders, readBody */ /** * @see https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/concepts/server-engine * @see https://github.com/unjs/h3 */ export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => { let body; const headers = getRequestHeaders(event); if (headers['content-type']?.includes('multipart/form-data')) { body = await parseMultipartNodeRequest(event.node.req); } else { body = await readBody(event); } console.log(body); return { ok: true }; });

import formidable from 'formidable'; /** * @see https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/concepts/server-engine * @see https://github.com/unjs/h3 */ export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => { let body; const headers = getRequestHeaders(event); if (headers['content-type']?.includes('multipart/form-data')) { body = await parseMultipartNodeRequest(event.node.req); } else { body = await readBody(event); } console.log(body); return { ok: true }; }); /** * @param {import('http').IncomingMessage} req */ function parseMultipartNodeRequest(req) { return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { /** @see https://github.com/node-formidable/formidable/ */ const form = formidable({ multiples: true }) form.parse(req, (error, fields, files) => { if (error) { reject(error); return; } resolve({ ...fields, ...files }); }); }); }

You could probably do all that in Nuxt with building a backend in the server folder. (More info here: https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/directory-structure/server) But, I understand that the official Nuxt 3 Auth module is being worked on which should make life a lot easier. For now, there's something new you can look into, namely the session support in the newest Nitro version (which is the backend part of Nuxt 3). There's some info here: https://github.com/unjs/h3/pull/315. I should not that I have not looked at this yet, though.

h3 - a minimalistic and simple node.js framework

Nuxt 3 is powered by a new server engine called Nitro. Nitro is used in development and production. It includes cross-platform support for Node.js, Browsers, and service-workers and serverless support out-of-the-box. Other features include API routes, automatic code-splitting, async-loaded chunks, and hybrid static/serverless modes. Server API endpoints and Middleware that internally uses h3 are added by Nitro.

We see some great results from using these in conjunction with frameworks such as SST or Serverless, and also some real spaghetti from people who organically proliferate 100’s of functions over time and lose track of how they relate to each other or how to update them safely across time and service. Buyer beware!

> But if you have a sufficiently large enough API surface, doing one lambda per endpoint comes with a lot of pain as well. Packaging and deploying all of those artifacts can be very time consuming, especially if you have a naive approach that does a full rebuild/redeploy every time the pipeline runs.

Yeah, thankfully SST [0] does the heavy lifting for me. I've tried most of the solutions out there and SST was where I was the happiest. Right now I do 1 functions per endpoint. I structure my code like url paths mostly, 1 stack per final folder, so that the "users" folder maps to "/users/*" and inside I have get/getAll/create/update/delete files that map to GET X/id, GET X, POST X, POST X/id, DELETE/id. It works out well, it's easy to reason about, and deploys (a sizable a backend) in about 10min on GitHub Actions (which I'm going to swap out probably for something faster).

I agree with the secrets/permissions aspect and I like that it's stupid-simple for me to attach secrets/permissions at a low level if I want.

I use NodeJS and startup isn't horrible and once it's up the requests as very quick. For my needs, an the nature of the software I'm writing, lambda makes a ton of sense (mostly never used, but when it's used it's used heavily and needs to scale up high).

[0] https://sst.dev

We will start by building a project with SST that provisions an API Gateway, a Lambda, and an S3 bucket. Once implemented, we'll look into testing for concurrent write conflicts or exceeding capacity limits.

I recently deployed a node websocket server using the SST Service construct. Until this point my stack had been functions and buckets. While I had no users 😢, I also had no costs 🤡.

Most my personal and side-business projects have very spiky load or just low load in general. Because of that I love using AWS Lambda as my backend since it scales to 0 and scales to whatever you have your limits set at.

I use SST [0] for my backend with NodeJS (TypeScript) and Vue (Quasar) for my frontend. For my database I use either Postgres or DynamoDB if the fit is right (Single Table Design is really neat). For Postgres I like Neon [1] though their recent pricing changes make it less appealing.

[0] https://sst.dev

[1] https://neon.tech

Yup. Entire core business product for a succeeding startup, though it's a small team of contributors (<10), and a much smaller platform team. Serverless backend started in 2018. Been a blessing in many regards, but it has its warts (often related to how new this architecture is, and of course we've made our own mistakes along the way).

I really like the model of functions decoupled through events. Big fan of that. It's very flexible and iterative. Keep that as your focus and it's great. Be careful of duplicating config, look for ways to compose/reuse (duh, but definitely a lesson learnt) and same with CI, structure your project so it can use something off-the-shelf like serverless-compose. Definitely monorepo/monolith it, I'd be losing my mind with 100-150 repos/"microservices" with a team this size. If starting now I'd maybe look at SST framework[0] because redeploying every change during development gets old fast

I couldn't go back to any other way to be honest, for cloud-heavy backends at least. By far the most productive I've ever been

Definitely has its warts though, it's not all roses.

[0] http://sst.dev

Along the way, you find an excellent framework, SST. Which is much faster than CDK and provides a better DX1. Here is how you then define your MultiPipelineStack.

SST is a powerful framework that simplifies the development of serverless applications. It offers a straightforward and opinionated approach to defining serverless apps using TypeScript. Built on top of AWS CDK, SST handles the complexity of setting up your serverless infrastructure automatically. SST is an open-source framework and is completely free to use.

SST is an open-source framework designed to facilitate the development and deployment of Serverless stacks on AWS. It operates under the hood by integrating with Amazon CDK. However, its primary benefit is in allowing us to concentrate on creating resources using familiar languages like TypeScript, treating them as Infrastructure as Code (IaC).