Serverless Framework integration for VS Code

This extension enables an integration of Serverless projects with VSCode. It eliminates the need to start Serverless commands from a separate command line.

Installation

In order to install an extension you need to open the extension palette and search for serverless-vscode. You can then install it.

Currently the extension only supports Serverless projects with Serverless installed locally!

That means, that Serverless must be a development dependency of the project itself. A subsequent version of the extension will also support the globally installed Serverless framework and a configuration for that.

Configuration

The extension supports user and workspace configuration. To access the configuration settings, open File->Preferences->Settings (workspace or user) and expand the Serverless Configuration node.

The following configuration settings are available:

serverless.aws.askForRegion

When set to false (the default), the extension will not ask for the region to deploy to but use the one, set as serverless.aws.defaultRegion. This reduces the typing needed to execute a single command, as normally you'll not deploy cross-region that often.

serverless.aws.defaultStage

The defult stage that is assumed, if you just press ENTER in the stage input field when executing a command.

serverless.aws.defaultRegion

The defult region that is assumed, if you just press ENTER in the stage input field when executing a command. See also serverless.aws.askForRegion.

Usage

The Serverless outline

As soon as you have added a Serverless project to your workspace, you can select the serverless.yml in the Explorer tree view. Then an outline is shown in the Explorer view, that shows the parsed structure of your Serverless service definition. The outline will contain a functions and an API hive, which contain the defined functions in the project and the defined API endpoint hierarchy. Each item in the outline has a context menu that allows access to context specific commands. Most of the command will ask you for the target stage when triggered.

Top container objects

Each of the top hives has a context menu that lets you invoke service/project related functions.

Package

Package will ask for the stage and optionally region and packages the service with serverless package.

Deploy

Package will ask for the stage and optionally region and deploys the service with serverless deploy.

Variable resolution (Resolve)

Resolve allows you to show a generated resolved.yml, i.e. your serverless.yml with all Serverless variables resolved to their values for a selected stage.

Functions

The functions hive lets you analyze your service function-wise and contains a node for each function. Each function then contains a list of all defined HTTP endpoints in the function definition.

All function related commands of the extension can be called via the context menu of the function.

Deploy function

Deploys the selected function with serverless deploy function. Attention: In general, single function deployment does not replace a service deployment. See the Serverless documentation for details.

Invoke local

Invoke the selected function locally. The command lets you select an event.json that will be used for the local invocation. Setting a custom context is not yet possible.

Show logs

Retrieve and show the online logs of the deployed function in the output pane.

Open handler

Open the handler source file that is associated with the function.

API

The API hive shows the combined API that will eventually be deployed to API Gateway.

Releases

See the CHANGELOG.MD file.