The simplest, most powerful way to build serverless applications

Declaratively define next generation cloud infra with plain text. Build database backed web apps rapidly. Execute long running background tasks (15min), queues, and scheduled jobs. All open source.

⏱ Deploy in seconds with first class support for staging and production envs
💻 Work locally while completely offline with a speedy in-memory database
💓 Primitives, not frameworks: define app architecture agnostic of vendor arcana
💾 Version control your architecture and provision cloud infra in minutes from an .arc manifest

Leverage powerful Amazon Web Services serverless primitives without frustrating config:

Lambda cloud native functions for compute
API Gateway for HTTP
Route53 for DNS
CloudFront for CDN
S3 for static assets
Simple Notification Service for event pub/sub functions
Simple Queue Service for queue functions
CloudWatch Events for scheduled functions
DynamoDB for data persistence, querying and trigger functions
Parameter Store for environment variables

Install

npm i @architect/architect

Everything starts with an .arc file:

# this is an .arc file
@app
testapp

@http
get /
get /hellos
post /hello

npx create generates Lambda function code and deploys it:

/
├── src
│   └── http
│       ├── get-index/
│       ├── get-hellos/
│       └── post-hello/
├── .arc
└── package.json

The generated function code in /src/http/get-index/index.js looks like this:

exports.handler = async function http(request) {
  return {
    type: 'text/html',
    body: '<h1>Hello World! 🎉</h1>'
  }
}

And npx deploy ships iterations on your code to the cloud in seconds.

The simplest, most powerful way to build serverless applications

Install

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