This article is to show how we can easily set up serverless functions with our front-end application, we'll be building an app with a custom link previewer component.
This component sends a request with a URL to our serverless function. The function then uses Puppeteer to get metadata from the target site using the URL and generate a screenshot of the site.
The function sends the metadata and screenshots back to the component on our front-end to display it as a link preview in the application.
- Node.js - version 10 or later
- Netlify Account
- Netlify CLI
- Install Netlify CLI
- Run
npm install - Run
netlify dev - Visit http://localhost:8888/
- Access your functions at - http://localhost:8888/.netlify/functions/
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