serverless-dynamodb-client

This Serverless 0.5.x plugin help you to call AWS Dynamodb SDK without switching between different dynamodb instances, whether you work with Dynamodb local or online in AWS.

This Plugin Requires

• serverless-offline
• serverless-dynamodb-local

Using in your code

For each Lambda function, run the following command to add it to the npm package.json dependancies list

npm install --save serverless-dynamodb-client

Then you can use dynamodb in your code as follows

const { DynamoDB } = require('serverless-dynamodb-client');

// then use it as a standard DynamoDB client

Env variables

You can define some database configuration with environment variables. Here they are:

• LOCAL_DDB_HOST: local dynamodb hostname, default is localhost
• LOCAL_DDB_PORT: local dynamodb port, default is 8080
• LOCAL_DDB_ENDPOINT: local dynamodb endpoint if you don't want to use HOST and PORT variables, default is http://${HOST}:${PORT}\;

References

• Dynamodb SDK (rawClient): http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/DynamoDB.html
• Dynamodb Document Client SDK (docClient): http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/DynamoDB/DocumentClient.html