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The serverless framework supports an excellent workflow with the serverless-webpack plugin to package your functions individually with webpack. For AWS SAM, it's probably worth checking out the aws-sam-webpack-plugin, but I've found it far simpler to configure esbuild to perform the same task.
The serverless framework supports an excellent workflow with the serverless-webpack plugin to package your functions individually with webpack. For AWS SAM, it's probably worth checking out the aws-sam-webpack-plugin, but I've found it far simpler to configure esbuild to perform the same task.
The serverless framework supports an excellent workflow with the serverless-webpack plugin to package your functions individually with webpack. For AWS SAM, it's probably worth checking out the aws-sam-webpack-plugin, but I've found it far simpler to configure esbuild to perform the same task.
I've used webpack before for bundling, and while it is a mature and flexible bundler, you may run into problems with its memory usage and execution when you use it on very large projects with dozens of AWS Lambda functions. This is because it is written in JavaScript and must execute the same bundling process for each Lambda function.
Tree-shaking and reduced deployment package size - a bundler will only include the node dependencies your function imports, and if enabled correctly for tree-shaking, your overall bundle size will be reduced to just the blocks of code that are needed (which is great for multi-functional libraries like lodash which are rarely used as a whole).
esbuild is a newer bundler built in Go, which is gaining considerable popularity for its speedy execution time and simple configuration, as well as removing the need for Babel with its native TypeScript support. However, it should be noted it has less features and is less mature than webpack (and probably always will because it is deliberately targeting a reduced feature set).
AWS SAM is a great way to package and deploy your AWS Lambda functions, but as your project grows, it's easy to become frustrated with increasing deployment times from an ever-growing deployment package containing all your functions and NodeJS dependencies.