A serverless framework plugin to deploy nextjs apps.
The plugin targets Next 8 serverless mode
- Motivation
- Getting Started
- Hosting static assets
- Serving static assets
- Deploying
- Overriding page configuration
- Custom page routing
- Custom error page
- Custom lambda handler
- All plugin configuration options
- Examples
- Caveats
- Contributing
Next 8 released official support for serverless! It doesn't work out of the box with AWS Lambdas, instead, next provides a low level API which this plugin uses to deploy the serverless pages.
Nextjs serverless page handler signature:
exports.render = function(req, res) => {...}
AWS Lambda handler:
exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {...}
A compat layer between the nextjs page bundles and AWS Lambda is added at build time:
const compat = require("next-aws-lambda");
const page = require(".next/serverless/pages/somePage.js");
module.exports.render = (event, context, callback) => {
compat(page)(event, context, callback);
};
npm install --save-dev serverless-nextjs-plugin
Out of the box, the plugin won't require any configuration. If you need to override any defaults check this.
For example:
nextApp
│ next.config.js
│ serverless.yml
└───pages
│ │ home.js
│ │ about.js
│ │ admin.js
Edit the serverless.yml and add:
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
package:
exclude:
- ./**
You can exclude everything. The plugin makes sure the page handlers are included in the artifacts.
If you don't want to manage uploading the next static assets yourself, like uploading them to a CDN, the plugin can do this for you by hosting the asset files on S3.
The easiest way is to use a valid bucket URL in the assetPrefix
field of your next configuration:
// next.config.js
module.exports = {
assetPrefix: "https://s3.amazonaws.com/your-bucket-name"
};
The plugin will create a new S3 Bucket using the parsed name. On deployment, static assets will be uploaded to the bucket provisioned.
Alternatively, if you just want the assets to get uploaded to S3, you can provide the bucket name via the plugin config:
# serverless.yml
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
custom:
serverless-nextjs:
assetsBucketName: "your-bucket-name"
Static files can be served by following the NextJs convention of using a static
and public
folder.
From your code you can then reference those files with a /static
URL:
function MyImage() {
return <img src="/static/my-image.png" alt="my image" />
}
export default MyImage
To serve static files from the root directory you can add a folder called public and reference those files from the root, e.g: /robots.txt.
Note that for this to work, an S3 bucket needs to be provisioned as per hosting-static-assets.
For production deployments, enabling CloudFront is recommended:
# serverless.yml
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
custom:
serverless-nextjs:
assetsBucketName: "your-bucket-name"
cloudFront: true
By doing this, a CloudFront distribution will be created in front of your next application to serve any static assets from S3 and the pages from Api Gateway.
Note that deploying the stack for the first time will take considerably longer, as CloudFront takes time propagating the changes, typically 10 - 20mins.
You can provide your own configuration for the CloudFront distribution:
# serverless.yml
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
custom:
serverless-nextjs:
assetsBucketName: "your-bucket-name"
cloudFront: ${file(cloudfront-override.yml)}
# cloudfront-override.yml
# e.g. add custom domain name
Properties:
DistributionConfig:
Aliases:
- my.alias.com
ViewerCertificate:
AcmCertificateArn: arn:aws:acm:xxxx
...
The configuration provided will be merged onto the defaults in packages/serverless-nextjs-plugin/resources/cloudfront.yml
.
serverless deploy
When running serverless deploy
all your next pages will be automatically compiled, packaged and deployed.
The Lambda functions created for each page have by default the following configuration:
handler: /path/to/page/handler.render
events:
- http:
path: pageName # home, about, etc. Unless is the index page which is served at /
method: get
- http:
path: pageName # home, about, etc. Unless is the index page which is served at /
method: head
You may want to have a different configuration for one or more of your page functions. This is possible by setting the pageConfig
key in the plugin config:
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
custom:
serverless-nextjs:
pageConfig:
about:
memorySize: 512 # default is 1024
home:
timeout: 10 # default is 6
If you need to change the default configuration, such as memorySize
, timeout
etc. use the top level provider
which will override all the functions configuration. For example, to change the memorySize to 512MB:
provider:
name: aws
runtime: nodejs8.10
memorySize: 512
...
You can also add configuration for all page functions by adding an asterisk entry (*
) to pageConfig
. This is particularly useful when you have other functions in your service (i.e. an api
) aside from the page functions and you only want to apply configuration changes to the latter:
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
custom:
serverless-nextjs:
pageConfig:
"*":
layers:
- arn:aws:lambda:${self:provider.region}:553035198032:layer:nodejs12:1
You can set any function property described here.
The default page routes follow the same convention as next useFileSystemPublicRoutes
documented here.
E.g.
page | path |
---|---|
pages/index.js | / |
pages/post.js | /post |
pages/blog/index.js | /blog |
pages/categories/uno/dos.js | /categories/uno/dos |
You may want to serve your page from a different path. This is possible by setting your own http path in the routes
config. For example for pages/post.js
:
class Post extends React.Component {
static async getInitialProps({ query }) {
return {
slug: query.slug
};
}
render() {
return <h1>Post page: {this.props.slug}</h1>;
}
}
export default Post;
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
custom:
serverless-nextjs:
routes:
- src: post
path: posts/{slug}
request:
parameters:
paths:
slug: true
404 or 500 errors are handled both client and server side by a default component error.js
, same as documented here.
Simply add pages/_error.js
:
class Error extends React.Component {
static getInitialProps({ res, err }) {
const statusCode = res ? res.statusCode : err ? err.statusCode : null;
return { statusCode };
}
render() {
return (
<p>
{this.props.statusCode
? `An error ${this.props.statusCode} occurred on server (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻`
: "An error occurred on client"}
</p>
);
}
}
export default Error;
If you need to customize the lambda handler you can do so by providing a path to your own handler in the customHandler
field. Note that it resolves the path to the custom handler relative to your next.config.js
.
plugins:
- serverless-nextjs-plugin
custom:
serverless-nextjs:
customHandler: ./handler.js
The custom handler needs to look something like this:
const compat = require("next-aws-lambda");
module.exports = page => {
const handler = (event, context, callback) => {
// do any stuff you like
// this makes sure the next page renders
compat(page)(event, context, callback);
// do any other stuff you like
};
return handler;
};
Plugin config key | Type | Default Value | Description |
---|---|---|---|
nextConfigDir | string |
./ | Path to parent directory of next.config.js . |
assetsBucketName | string |
<empty> | Creates an S3 bucket with the name provided. The bucket will be used for uploading next static assets. |
cloudFront | bool | object |
false | Set to true to create a cloud front distribution in front of your nextjs application. Also can be set to an object if you need to override CloudFront configuration, see serving static assets. |
routes | []object |
[] | Array of custom routes for the next pages. |
customHandler | string |
<empty> | Path to your own lambda handler. |
uploadBuildAssets | bool |
true | In the unlikely event that you only want to upload static or public dirs, set this to false . |
createAssetBucket | bool |
true | Set to false if you want to manage next assets yourself. |
Beware this plugin relies on CloudFormation which has a hard limit of 200 resources. If you have a large number of pages in your application it is very likely that you will hit this limit. Contributions are welcome to investigate how this could be worked around by using something like https://github.com/dougmoscrop/serverless-plugin-split-stacks.
See the examples/
directory.
Please see the contributing guide.
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