APIGateway returns lambda response object instead of body of the response

My code:

export function handler(event: APIGatewayEvent, context: Context) {
  try {
    const app: Application = getExpressApp();
    const server = awsServerlessExpress.createServer(app);
    return awsServerlessExpress.proxy(server, event, context);
  } catch (err) {
    context.fail('Failed to start server on lambda');
  }
}

The response if a make a request through api gateway:

But i was expecting to just get the json body:

{
  "message": "hello from backend"
}

Am i doing something wrong or is this expected behavior?

[emrahayanoglu]

I found my problem on the response which is the wrong configuration of the API Gateway. It should be configured as Lambda Proxy Integration, otherwise all headers will be visible on the response.

I propose to close this ticket as it is a configuration issue on the API Gateway.

[brettstack]

Glad you figured it out. Thanks for the screenshots. Check out our example which I recommend using as a baseline and modifying from there. It uses SAM a d is a one-command deploy