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6MB AWS Lambda Hard Limit Strikes Again

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What went wrong? When attempting to use npm i npm --save failed.

It actually came about attempting to install cordova as npm is a dependency of it.

What did you expect should have happened? npm module should have installed
What stacktrace or error message did you experience?

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Additional Data

NPM CLI version you are using: 3.10.16
Serverless version you’re using: 1.6.1
Node version you’re using: v6.2.0

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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JordanSinkocommented, Mar 11, 2019

I was able to bypass this, specifically for the package ‘npm’, by forking the code and changing the response of the package-get be a redirect, instead of directly fetching its meta, when fetching NPM packages.

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joebowbeercommented, Sep 26, 2018

@micksabox AWS Lambda limits response body payload (e.g., your npm package) to 6MB

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html

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