Appwrite Functions: The Ultimate Guide to deploy serverless functions with Appwrite Cloud

Hey everyone, Today we'll see how we can deploy our own Appwrite function with Appwrite Cloud within minutes. It's so easy and useful.

So for getting started first create your account here - Appwrite Cloud

After signup create a project, click on Functions as shown below -

After this there are two ways to deploy it.

Method 1 - Appwrite CLI

Appwrite provide a featured packed CLI for managing your Appwrite projects. This is a one time process and helps a lot in deploying your functions easily.

• Install the Appwrite CLI -

npm install -g appwrite-cli

or dependency free installation

For Mac

brew tap appwrite/sdk-for-cli https://github.com/appwrite/sdk-for-cli
brew update
brew install --HEAD appwrite

For windows

iwr -useb https://appwrite.io/cli/install.ps1 | iex

For Linux

curl -sL https://appwrite.io/cli/install.sh | bash

• After the installation is complete, verify the install using

appwrite -v

• Now, Login to the appwrite cli. This will ask for your email and password. If you logged in with social auth try password reset and set a password first.

appwrite login

• After this, verify that you can access your project -

appwrite projects get --projectId [PROJECT_ID]

• Now our appwrite cli setup is complete and now let's set up our function.

Now we have to connect our existing project first. Run

appwrite init project

• Select the existing project and after that you'll see result like this in your console.

• Now run below command to initialize your project.

appwrite init function

• Now here you have to select your runtime. If you want to deploy a javascript function then select node runtime. I have selected node runtime here.

After selecting this our function is created.

• Update src/index.js with your function code. For detailed information about functions visit here.

• Once you have updated your code then
  

appwrite deploy function

• Select your function with arrow keys and confirm with space and hit 'enter'.

Congratulations 🎊🎊🎊 Your Appwrite function is deployed successfully in Appwrite Cloud.
Now visit your functions dashboard, open the function you deployed just now. Go to settings tab and change the execution policies according to your need. Now Execute the function on event or add custom schedules for execute from your code. You can check function execution in the function dashboard by clicking on Execute button.

Method 2 - Appwrite Cloud

• Login to your Appwrite cloud account and navigate to functions page.

• Click on create function button and enter necessary details.

• In the next optional steps you can add Events, Execute Access, Schedule and Variables for your Appwrite function and then hit Create

Your Appwrite function is created. 🔥

Wait .......................... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
We have to add code as well right?....
So let's proceed then..

• After creating your function you should see this screen.

• Now just pick your index.js file (with all code) and package.json and create a tar.gz compressed file. You can use 7zip if you are in windows platform.

• Once you have create tar.gz compressed file. Go to function dashboard and click on Create Deployment and upload this tar.gz file like shown below and mention index.js as the entry point.

• Also check the Activate deployment checkbox to activate function after deployment.

Congratulations 🎊🎊🎊 _Your Appwrite function is deployed successfully in Appwrite Cloud.

• Once done click on Execute Now button and you'll see this.

You can check logs where you can find all error logs, console logs or response returned by your Appwrite function.

_That's all, You have successfully learned how to deploy Appwrite function.

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Navdeep M.