Beast

Beast is Screenshot as a Service using Nodejs, Chrome and Aws Lamda. Convert a webpage to an image using headless Chrome Takes screenshot of any given URL/Html content and returns base64 encoded buffer.

Memory allotted 2GB.

This project uses the serverless-bundle plugin and the serverless-offline plugin. It supports:

• Generating optimized Lambda packages with Webpack
• Using ES6 or TypeScript in your handler functions
• Run API Gateway locally
  • Use serverless offline start
• Support for unit tests
  • Run npm test to run your tests
• Sourcemaps for proper error messages
  • Error message show the correct line numbers
  • Works in production with CloudWatch
• Lint your code with ESLint
• Add environment variables for your stages
• No need to manage Webpack or Babel configs

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Requirements

• Install the Serverless Framework
• Configure your AWS CLI

Installation

To create a new Serverless project.

$ serverless install --url [git repo ur] --name my-project

Enter the new directory

$ cd my-project

Install the Node.js packages

$ npm install

Usage

To run a function on your local

$ serverless invoke local --function hello

To simulate API Gateway locally using serverless-offline

$ serverless offline start

Installation

yarn install

serverless.yml running command:

sls deploy

If any changes need environment setting, Change the value in serverless.yml file and rerun the sls deploy command.