DEPRECATED - take a look at https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki/Installation---AWS-Lambda instead

This no longer works since AWS Lambda upgraded from Node 0.10 to Node 4.3+.

Node canvas AWS Lambda example

Example of using AWS Lambda with node-canvas. node-canvas has a dependency on Cairo which is a native library with other native library dependencies which aren't currently available on the current AWS Lambda AMI (2015.09).

An AWS blog post describes the static compilation process (source):

You’ll need to either ensure that the libraries and their transitive dependencies are statically compiled or use rpath-style linking; we’ll do it the static way in this post, and demonstrate use of rpath in a subsequent post. (Note that many, but not all, libraries can be statically linked this way.)

However, to get this working for node-canvas I used dynamic linking with rpath. I more or less followed the process outlined by mankins on this this node-canvas GitHub issue

Files

src contains the compiled shared object files and index.js which contains the the lambda function (index.handler).

dist is just the contents of src compressed into a zip file which should be ready to upload to AWS Lambda.