netlify-functions

Netlify Functions

Here's some code you can copy/paste to get up and running quickly with a function that make calls to M3O APIs.

Overview

Managed JAMstack platforms like Netlify and Vercel provide "functions" to help you build out backend functionality quickly and without the overhead of managing infrastructure.

The M3O API key should be kept secret; you should avoid embedding the API key in your frontend code, otherwise it can be reused by others without your knowledge. Instead, the preferred method of using the Micro APIs is to make the calls from your backend and serve the results to your frontend; this way you will not expose your API keys to the world.

Getting started

The code for the function that will call Micro lives in netlify/functions/example.js. Copy this to the directory that contains your functions.

The function takes the body of the request and uses that as the body of the call to Micro. The example is setup to call helloworld/call so tweak this as you need.

For your netlify functions to work you need two packages installed in your top level package.json:

npm install --save @netlify/zip-it-and-ship-it
npm install --save @m3o/m3o-node

Generate your M3O API token and save it as an environment variable (M3O_API_TOKEN) on Netlify.

Then go ahead and deploy!