Building with NodeJS

FunctionGraph Types

FunctionGraph provides 2 types of functions:

• Event Functions

  Event functions can be configured with event triggers and integrate a variety of products (such as object storage service OBS, distributed messaging service RabbitMQ version, cloud log service LTS, etc.).

  See Event Function

• HTTP Functions

  HTTP functions support mainstream Web application frameworks and can be accessed through a browser or called directly by a URL.

  See HTTP Functions

Both types of functions can be built either from scratch or by using container images.

Supported NodeJS Runtimes for building from scratch

FunctionGraph currently supports the following NodeJS runtimes for building functions from scratch:

Supported NodeJS runtimes

Runtime	Identifier
NodeJS 6.10	Node.js6.10
NodeJS 8.10	Node.js8.10
NodeJS 10.16	Node.js10.16
NodeJS 12.13	Node.js12.13
NodeJS 14.18	Node.js14.18
NodeJS 16.17	Node.js16.17
NodeJS 18.20	Node.js18.20

Supported NodeJS Runtimes for building using container images

For building functions using container images, you can use any NodeJS version that meets the requirements of your custom container image.

Set up development environment

To build and run the NodeJS runtime for FunctionGraph, you need to set up your development environment by installing the NodeJS programming language.

Operating system

This guide assumes that you are using a Unix-like operating system such as

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) see How to install Linux on Windows with WSL,

• Linux,

• macOS.

Install NodeJS

1. Download the NodeJS installation package for your operating system from the official NodeJS website.

2. Follow the installation instructions provided on the website to install NodeJS on your system.

Note

This guide assumes that you have installed NodeJS and npm (Node Package Manager) using nvm (Node Version Manager) to manage your NodeJS versions.

Install an IDE

You can use any text editor or IDE to write NodeJS code.

Note

Examples in this documentation were created using:

• WSL and

• Visual Studio Code.

Using container images

To build functions using container images, you need to have Docker installed on your system.

See Get Docker for instructions on how to install Docker on your system.

last updated: 2026-03-12 08:56:10 UTC - commit: 187a851f42d3ed9d80281edb291078f73f395b44