serverless/lib/plugins/create

Create

serverless create --template aws-nodejs

Creates a new service in the current working directory based on the provided template.

Options

• --template or -t The name of your new service. Required.
• --path or -p The path where the service should be created.

Provided lifecycle events

• create:create

Available Templates

• aws-nodejs
• aws-python

Examples

Creating a new service

serverless create --template aws-nodejs

This example will generate scaffolding for a service with AWS as a provider and nodejs as runtime. The scaffolding will be generated in the current working directory.

Your new service will have a default stage called dev and a default region inside that stage called us-east-1. The provider which is used for deployment later on is AWS (Amazon web services).

Creating a named service in a (new) directory

serverless create --template aws-nodejs --path my-new-service

This example will generate scaffolding for a service with AWS as a provider and nodejs as runtime. The scaffolding will be generated in the my-new-service directory. This directory will be created if not present. Otherwise Serverless will use the already present directory.

Additionally Serverless will rename the service according to the path you provide. In this example the service will be renamed to my-new-service.