now

Introduction

Now is a new serverless platform provided by ZEIT. Their aim is to make serverless deployments easy and hassle free. Fortunately light works well with Now to make it even easier!

Note that this guide targets their V2 platform and will not work with their older docker system (see server on how to use server mode)

Setup

All data required to host on the now platform is stored in a now.json file.

{
  "version": 2,
  "name": "my-light-project",
  "builds": [{ "src": "routes/**/*.js", "use": "@now/node" }],
  "routes": [
    { "src": "/", "dest": "routes/index.js" },
    { "src": "/(.*)", "dest": "routes/$1.js" }
  ],
  "env": {
    "NODE_ENV": "production",
    "LIGHT_ENV": "now"
  }
}

Once you save the file in the root folder, all you need to do is run the now command. If you have not already, see the guides on how to install now-cli. See the docs for now to customize light and your deployment how you want.

NOTE: Now uses the file system as the router by default, so custom paths you have set with the path flag will not work by default. You will need to manually add your routes to the now.json. The configuration above will forward / to the routes/index.js handler.