Unwebpack'd node-modules

[reconbot]

@tsiege and I are tyring to get webpack to play nice with a module (sgvo) that uses fs.readFileSync and other bad module practices. This doesn't play well with webpack. The best way to include this modules to just mark it an external and just upload it with the index.js.

How can we do that? I'd like to mark a function in such a way that shep zips node-modules with the function.

[reconbot]

With shep 3x this can be accomplished with a custom buildCommand. We could copy or install we want into the function's directory and it will get zipped.

[southpolesteve]

@reconbot I am gonna reopen. This is def possible via a few methods, but I think we should document better.

[tsiege]

@Steve for documentation purposes, our current work around for shep 3.2.x is the following
webpack.config.js

  externals: {
    'phantom': 'phantom', // module we want in the lambda function
    'aws-sdk': 'aws-sdk',
    'hiredis': 'hiredis'
  },

package.json shep field

  "shep": {
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "accountId": "123",
    "apiId": "abc123",
    "buildCommand": "webpack --bail && PHANTOMJS_PLATFORM=\"linux\" PHANTOMJS_ARCH=\"x64\" npm i [email protected] @bustle/flower --prefix ./dist/function-name"
  },