Netlify Functions examples

Hi there! This is a playground repo to test out Netlify’s Lambda Functions. You can see a live demo of the examples at https://functions-playground.netlify.com.

If you want your own copy to play around with, the quickest way to get it up and running is clicking the Deploy to Netlify button below. It will clone this repository into your own account, and deploy the site to Netlify.

Table of Contents

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• Setup
• Running the examples
• Community Function Examples
• Contributing
  • Adding an example

Setup

To run the examples locally, here’s what you’ll need:

System Requirements:

• git
• NodeJS 8 or greater
• yarn

cd into your local copy of the repository and run yarn or npm install

cd netlify-functions-example
yarn

Running the examples

yarn start

This will start the client server on http://localhost:8080, and the netlify-lambda server on http://localhost:9000.

netlify-lambda isn’t required to deploy Lambda functions to Netlify, but it offers some handy features out of the box that make it quicker to get started, like the local dev server and nice defaults for transpiling and bundling functions in production.

The client server is configured to proxy /.netlify requests to the Lambda server (see webpack.client.js). This is the same behavior the site has when it’s deployed to Netlify.

Community Function Examples

Add an example

Example	Author
Bus Schedule Tracker Tracking bus schedules	edumentab
Contentful Authless Comments Contentful authless comments	shaunpersad
Contentful Image Saver Save images to contentful	mirshko
Create React App Lambda Create React App with baked in Netlify functions support	netlify
Detect Csp Violations CSP violations reporting by setting the lambda URL as the CSP report-uri	stefanjudis
Fetch Files From Google Drive List files from google drive API	JustinBeckwith
Form Spam Filter Filter form spam and send to Zapier webhook	chrisjm
Get Items From Cosmicjs List out objects from cosmicjs	aslanvaroqua
Get Weather Via Openweathermap Get the weather via openweathermap	mattburrell
Ifttt To Flick Instagram Make New Github Post Webhook from IFTTT when new Flickr photo with tag #blog create github file and post. Automated photo blog view the project	rretsiem
Intercom As Oauth Login Oauth via intercom	DavidWells
Lookup Dns DNS lookup of a site	HJGreen
Mailchimp Landing Page Landing page with mailchimp	tobilg
Mongodb And Functions Using mongoDB + functions view the project	maciejmatu
Netlify Functions Apollo Graphql Deploying Apollo graphql on netlify functions view the project	stubailo
Netlify Functions As Zips Functions as zips	DavidWells
Netlify Functions Crud App With Fauna Using faunaDB as datastore	netlify
Netlify Functions Express Using express with netlify functions	DavidWells
Netlify Functions Gated Sites Gating multiple sites with Okta	DavidWells
Netlify Headless Site Serve entire site via Netlify functions + dynamic serverside HTML rendering	rabbah
Ping Superfeedr On Deploy Ping Superfeedr RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds on successful deploy. Uses event driven functions	anarchivist
Process Upload Send To Trello Slack Mailgun Process form file upload and send to results to trello, slack, & mailgun	NimbusForWork
Progressive Form Enhancement Via Functions Handle Ajax & normal form POST submissions via functions view the project	DavidWells
Proxy Blocked Google Analytics Proxy pageviews to google analytics incase google analytics is blocked on the client side	codeniko
Proxy Tracking Data To Loggly proxy arbitrary tracking data to a log management service Loggly	codeniko
Save Data To Google Sheets Save emails to googlesheets	grod220
Save Twitch Clips Save To Postgres Grab clips from twitch and insert into postgres database	stphnchoe
Scrape Twitter Avatars Scrape mobile twitter HTML to return the URLs of a user avatar: view the project	philhawksworth
Send Custom Netlify Build Slack Notification Custom netlify build status in slack	mirshko
Send Email Via Aws Sns Sends a question submitted from HTML question form via AWS SES. This example connects to an external AWS account	frzng
Send Email Via Nodemailer send email via nodemailer	kicholen
Serverless Auth Strategies How to protected & scoped down functions to specific users	DavidWells
Serverside Hashing Serverside hashing via crypto	SquishyCat
Stripe Payment Processing stripe payment processing	alexmacarthur
Swambda Openapi Integrate OpenAPI (swagger) specifications and lambda into an easy-to-use routing tier	fehguy
Tokbox Session Manager Build live interactive video, voice and messaging into your web and mobile apps via tokbox	slap-dash
Token Hider Via Proxy Token hider api passthrough proxy	depadiernos
Url Shortening Service URL shortening service	philhawksworth
Verify Okta Verify an Okta token with Go	netlify

Contributing

We are happy to accept more examples from the community

Adding an example

1. Add your example to examples.json

Make sure to include the following fields. If there is no live demo/blog post etc, you can omit the url from the object.

{
  "name": "netlify-functions-apollo-graphql",
  "description": "Deploying Apollo graphql on netlify functions ",
  "code": "https://github.com/stubailo/apollo-netlify-lambda-app",
  "url": "https://blog.apollographql.com/deploy-a-fullstack-apollo-app-with-netlify-45a7dfd51b0b"
}

2. Regenerate the README.md with the following command

npm run docs

3. Open a new pull request with your example.