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It looks like up for running something like express/koa/etc while fx is for functions (like AWS Lambda). They are both "serverless" but that's about all they share in common AFAICT. Thanks for mentioning "up" though, I'd never heard of it before, very cool.

Re: Show HN: Fx - Poor man's serverless framework

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Post by Gys » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

Sorry if I mistunderstand. The readme is very limited. But this need a (vps or something) server that I own / manage ? It does not seem to upload the functions(s) to some cloud ?

In general I think 'serverless' means deploying code without managing some kind of server yourself.

Re: Show HN: Fx - Poor man's serverless framework

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Post by turtlebits » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

caust1c wrote: post #2

Isn't this just `up`? https://github.com/apex/up

`up` looks like it only runs on AWS. This seems nice as the only requirement is docker and I can run it on my $3USD VPS

Re: Show HN: Fx - Poor man's serverless framework

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Post by jensvdh » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 6:05 PM UTC

Gys wrote: post #5

Sorry if I mistunderstand. The readme is very limited. But this need a (vps or something) server that I own / manage ? It does not seem to upload the functions(s) to some cloud ? In general I think 'serverless' means deploying code without managing some kind of server yourself.

It's a poor man's readme

Re: Show HN: Fx - Poor man's serverless framework

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Post by fiatjaf » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 6:28 PM UTC

turtlebits wrote: post #6

caust1c wrote: post #2

Isn't this just `up`? https://github.com/apex/up

`up` looks like it only runs on AWS. This seems nice as the only requirement is docker and I can run it on my $3USD VPS

Where do you get such a cheap VPS? I'm paying $5!

Re: Show HN: Fx - Poor man's serverless framework

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Post by abiox » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 6:28 PM UTC

caust1c wrote: post #2

Isn't this just `up`? https://github.com/apex/up

are you suggesting it's similar, or that it's a fork, or something else?

Re: Show HN: Fx - Poor man's serverless framework

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Post by tjholowaychuk » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 8:12 PM UTC

turtlebits wrote: post #6

caust1c wrote: post #2

Isn't this just `up`? https://github.com/apex/up

`up` looks like it only runs on AWS. This seems nice as the only requirement is docker and I can run it on my $3USD VPS

Yep it uses AWS Lambda currently, you'll usually end up paying https://gh-polls.com/ etc, but it definitely depends on your traffic.

This project looks like it's more FaaS style (sans the self-healing / autoscaling etc). Up is more application oriented, it just happens to use Lambda.