Anyone using Zeit Now (with Micro) to run your Functions, rather then the built in Graph.cool functions? Copying and pasting (manually maintaining sync with git repo) is getting rough.

i’m using https://webtask.io/ which is similar and yes better than the copy paste. I still have some inline functions, it depends the complexity of it, if the function is let say more than 20 lines i use a serverless function, otherwise just the inline function they provide (you can test them quite easily when you open the popup in full screen)

What’s the pricing like on Webtask?

@mwickett also investigating this right now - the graph cool functions don’t give me any logs and the copy/paste is super annoying

Yeah - I don’t really want to take on the (perceived?) complexity of AWS. The Serverless project could work as well. I really like Now’s simplicity, but the pricing may be an issue.

I’ve already got 12 functions.

webtask is free if you don’t have more than 1 function called per second and after you need to contact them

How are you handling the URLs with now? It seems good but having to deploy each fucntion individually sounds like a lot of work too

Like do you create a new now instance for each function?

otherwise if you are using aws, serverless is really easy to use and create all the endpoint but still more complicated than webtask or now

@wesbos there is logs in graphcool functions if you click on the small icon on the right of your function line

yeah they are currently broken for my region

and not being fixed anytime soon

That’s what I’m wrangling right now - I have a couple running on now as a test, but yeah, the deploy thing is a bit of a challenge.

I’m trying to think of a way to bundle them up, that isn’t going to be a nightmare for dev

ho ok, I guess I don’t have this issue

like a single express instance? 😆

@wesbos Was thinking that. Different endpoint for each function.

kind of kills the point of serverless though

Yeah

but it is easier 🙂

Bingo

if you want to deploy many functions at the same time give a try to serverless you can deploy only one function or a set of function and deploy them all together with different endpoints for each

maybe ill take a look - not all that stoked about AWS though

I’ve used Serverless on another project for a handful of functions, but haven’t worked with it using more than 2 or 3.

Yeah, same.

what about sharing code between functions? Is that possible?

Good question - there ends up being a lot of boilerplate (especially setting up

graphcool-lib

)

hum using a lib you do for that yes but otherwise the deployment will be only for the current folder of the function so cannot include anything more by default but i’m pretty sure with a webpack config you can manage to do that