Using Slic-Starter as a template purely for Backend development?

[Nikola-Milovic]

Using Slic-Starter as a template purely for Backend development?

[eoinsha]

Hi @Nikola-Milovic 👋
SLIC Starter assumes that you want to use a domain, even for the backend (api.example.com) so this isn't going to work out of the box. If you really want to avoid using the domainConfig, a lot of other parts would have to be changed, so it's as well to use one, and you have a nice, human-readable URL for the API endpoints.
If you want to exclude the frontend, you can remove it the frontend folder entirely, then remove frontend from cicd/modules.ts so it doesn't get deployed as part of the CI/CD.

[Nikola-Milovic]

I'll stick with a domain then😂

Thank you very much!

[Nikola-Milovic]

@eoinsha Sorry for the ping, but should this be a normal occurrence? Took the exact setup from the checklist service. Also trying on a fresh clone of Slic-Starter and getting same errors and warnings, I am I missing a step? I am trying to do local development only.

Ran this command SLIC_STAGE=local sls offline start --migrate true from my custom service directory

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Serverless: Deprecation warning: Variables resolver reports following resolution errors:
              - Cannot resolve variable at "provider.region": Value not found at "env" source,
              - Cannot resolve variable at "custom.nsDomain": Value not found at "env" source,
              - Cannot resolve variable at "custom.domainPrefixes": Cannot load file from outside of a project directory (configure "projectDir" to extend project boundary),
              - Cannot resolve variable at "resources.Resources": Cannot parse "sls-resources.yml.js": Approached a JS function resolver, confirm it's updated to work with a new parser by setting "variablesResolutionMode: 20210326" in service config. Falling back to old resolver
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 Serverless Warning --------------------------------------
 
  A valid environment variable to satisfy the declaration 'env:TARGET_REGION' could not be found.
 
 
 Serverless Warning --------------------------------------
 
  A valid environment variable to satisfy the declaration 'env:SLIC_NS_DOMAIN' could not be found.
 
 
 Serverless Warning --------------------------------------
 
  A valid service attribute to satisfy the declaration 'self:provider.region' could not be found.
 
 
 Serverless Warning --------------------------------------
 
  A valid service attribute to satisfy the declaration 'self:provider.region' could not be found.
 
 
 Serverless Error ----------------------------------------
 
  Trying to populate non string value into a string for variable ${self:provider.region}. Please make sure the value of the property is a string.
 
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  Your Environment Information ---------------------------
     Operating System:          linux
     Node Version:              10.24.1
     Framework Version:         2.30.3 (local)
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[Nikola-Milovic]

Ping, if anyone can pinch in, it's probably a stupid mistake on my part.

[eoinsha]

Hi @Nikola-Milovic. Try setting TARGET_REGION=eu-west-1 (or any other region) when running the command.