Tencent-SCF - Installation

Installing Node.js

Serverless is a Node.js CLI tool so the first thing you need to do is to install Node.js on your machine.

Go to the official Node.js website, download and follow the installation instructions to install Node.js on your local machine.

Note: Serverless runs on Node v6 or higher.

You can verify that Node.js is installed successfully by running node --version in your terminal. You should see the corresponding Node version number printed out.

Installing the Serverless Framework

Next, install the Serverless Framework via npm which was already installed when you installed Node.js.

Open up a terminal and type npm install -g serverless to install Serverless.

npm install -g serverless

Once the installation process is done you can verify that Serverless is installed successfully by running the following command in your terminal:

serverless

To see which version of serverless you have installed run:

serverless --version

Setting up Tencent Cloud

To run serverless commands that interface with your Tencent Cloud account, you will need to setup your Tencent Cloud account credentials on your machine.

Follow these instructions on setting up Tencent Cloud credentials

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Tencent-SCF - Installation

Installing Node.js

Serverless is a Node.js CLI tool so the first thing you need to do is to install Node.js on your machine.

Go to the official Node.js website, download and follow the installation instructions to install Node.js on your local machine.

Note: Serverless runs on Node v6 or higher.

You can verify that Node.js is installed successfully by running node --version in your terminal. You should see the corresponding Node version number printed out.

Installing the Serverless Framework

Next, install the Serverless Framework via npm which was already installed when you installed Node.js.

Open up a terminal and type npm install -g serverless to install Serverless.

npm install -g serverless

Once the installation process is done you can verify that Serverless is installed successfully by running the following command in your terminal:

serverless

To see which version of serverless you have installed run:

serverless --version

Setting up Tencent Cloud

To run serverless commands that interface with your Tencent Cloud account, you will need to setup your Tencent Cloud account credentials on your machine.

Follow these instructions on setting up Tencent Cloud credentials