Intro

This is some great content.

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About the Lambda functions

1. AWS Lambda does not support ESM syntax, even on the Node.js 14.x runtime.
2. The Unified markdown transformation ecosystem plugins can only be used in ESM syntax. Requiring, as opposed to importing, isn't possible.
3. I'm using serverless-bundle to package the Lambda functions and transpile them from ESM to CJS. However, this makes debugging the actual deployment

   artifact very painful.

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4. A lot of the Lambda code is repetitive, violating the principle of keeping it DRY. I created a function that contained this repetitive code and it performed beautifully in the VS Code debugger. However, the transpiled deployment artifact didn't work on AWS and the only info I could get was a 502 Bad Gateway response with a payload of { "message": "Internal server error" }.
5. Faced with the choice of writing repetitive ESM code, days of painful debugging of the transpiled deployment artifacts, or reverting to an older, less supported and reliable markdown transformation plugin ecosystem that would be CJS-friendly, I opted to write repetitive ESM code.