monster-as-a-service
🧟 Monster as a Service. A Netlify Function which returns a random D&D moster every time.
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Monster As A Service (MAAS)
This is a microservice wrapping requests to D&D 5e API.
It will return a random monster at every request.
Goal
This repository is an example use-case on how to use Netlify Functions with TypeScript.
Deploy your own instance
More instructions
If you need help understanding the ins and outs of this code, please refer to the video on ScopeLeak
Packages
| Dependencies | Why |
|---|---|
| Netlify Dev | To run Netlify Functions locally |
| Netlify Lambda | Adds build-step to Netlify Functions |
| TypeScript | The compiler for TypeScript (tsc) |
| node-fetch | Brings window.fetch api to NodeJS |
| babel/preset-env | Tells Babel which JavaScript syntax to output |
| babel/preset-typescript | Teach Babel to use TypeScript compiler |
| types/aws-lambda | Request/Response types for AWS Lambdas |
| encoding | depency of node-fetch
|
1: Install it globally on your system
2: Netlify Functions uses AWS Lambdas under the hood
3: It should be a dependency of node-fetch but its not added in v2, so we add manually so our build doesnt break.
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