A full-stack serverless application with AssemblyLift and Next.js

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Vercel

Next.js by Vercel is a popular JavaScript/TypeScript frontend framework based on React. Next allows us to export our React application as static HTML which we can serve with AssemblyLift.

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Terraform

AssemblyLift is an open platform for cloud-native application development. AssemblyLift provides a portable, function-oriented framework and WebAssembly-based runtime which can be deployed to AWS Lambda or Kubernetes. The AssemblyLift CLI generates HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure code from simple TOML definitions, and takes care of compiling and packaging functions and services for deployment. To make a clichéd comparison, think of it as Infrastructure on Rails 😛.

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Rust

For performance, the server function is written in Rust. Rust compiles natively to WebAssembly, and so has faster cold-start time as well as faster execution speed compared to Ruby -- ideal for our server! We leverage a Rust crate called rust_embed which allows us to embed assets inside a compiled binary. We use this to embed the assets generated by our Next.js build inside the WebAssembly module which AssemblyLift will deploy as our Lambda function!

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Ruby

The counter function is written in Ruby. Since Ruby is an interpreted language, AssemblyLift deploys a customized Ruby 3.1 interpreter compiled to WebAssembly, which executes the function handler. Since the interpreter is somewhat large, the cold-start time of a Ruby function tends to be larger than that of a Rust function. Our counter is being run in the backround, so we're fine with it being a little bit laggy at times 😉.

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React

Next.js by Vercel is a popular JavaScript/TypeScript frontend framework based on React. Next allows us to export our React application as static HTML which we can serve with AssemblyLift.

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Next.js

Next.js by Vercel is a popular JavaScript/TypeScript frontend framework based on React. Next allows us to export our React application as static HTML which we can serve with AssemblyLift.

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Amazon Route 53

AssemblyLift projects can specify one or more domain names to which services can be mapped using a DNS provider. At the moment, the only available DNS provider is Amazon Route53.

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AWS Certificate Manager

When deployed to AWS, AssemblyLift will provision TLS certificates for your services using Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM).

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Amazon API Gateway

Regardless of infrastructure provider, AssemblyLift services are placed behind some kind of API Gateway service. When deployed to AWS, each AssemblyLift service is placed behind an an Amazon API Gateway endpoint. Each function may define an HTTP route which will invoke it. The server function is invoked by GET /{path+}; the {path+} token is a path parameter where the + indicates that it is a greedy parameter. This means that everything after the first / is mapped to a parameter called path. This allows us to map the requested path to an embedded path in our function binary. The counter function is invoked by POST /api/counter/{ip}, where {ip} is a regular path parameter named ip.

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