Announcing SAM Helper a simple way to describe your AWS Web Socket API Gateway

So if you have read through my previous articles (here, and here) discussing AWS Web Socket API Gateways and how to configure them you will see an evolution of complexity. Today I hope to show you a new way to do this that takes ALL of the frustration and complexity out of building an event driven web socket api with AWS API Gateway.

dsandor/aws-websocket-sam-helper

Check out aws-websocket-sam-helper. Instead of building out a template.yaml file that is thousands of lines long you can simply describe your lambda function with a simple json file and the rest will be done for you.

dsandor/ws-sam-helper-example

The project I referenced above ws-sam-helper-example shows you how to use the SAM Helper.

Here is an example of documenting a Lambda function that will handle a Web Socket route with the key get-user.

{
  "functionName": "GetUserFunction",
  "routeKey": "get-user",
  "apiId": "ApiBuiltBySamHelper",
  "handler": "user/index.getHandler"…