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Consider adding system packages that are available to Node.js functions #17

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lance opened this issue Aug 21, 2020 · 0 comments
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Consider adding system packages that are available to Node.js functions #17

lance opened this issue Aug 21, 2020 · 0 comments
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lance commented Aug 21, 2020

Many existing faas services provide system packages in the execution environment that allow functions to use them without the need for them to be included a package.json. This would definitely make build times faster, since if the function itself has no explicit dependencies, there is no reason to use npm install.

An example: Google Cloud Functions
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