What are Serverless Components?

The future of serverless development.

• What are Serverless Components?
• Why use Serverless Components?
• What are the benefits of Serverless Components?
• How to use Serverless Components?
• Serverless Framework vs Serverless Components (coming soon)

This article is part of a series of related articles which dive into serverless components, we hope you enjoy.

In this article we will define what serverless components are and what the impact of serverless components could have on the future of serverless development.

What are serverless components?

Serverless Components is a new release from the folks at Serverless Inc. and is currently in beta. Serverless components allow you to bypass the restraints of AWS CloudFormation and build out reusable templates around a specific use case via JavaScript using a paradigm you’re probably already familiar with.

Serverless components are based on the same structure as ReactJS components which means you’re able to reference individual components or compose components together. The benefit of composing components together is you benefit from leveraging existing components while sprinkling…