Getting Started / First Steps / "Unzipped size must be smaller..." Error

[r2x-ch]

Hello,

I've followed your instructions for the index.php-Test-App but the file size of the app.zip file is 175.85 MB and I get this Serverless Error:

An error occurred: ApiLambdaFunction - Resource handler returned message: "Unzipped size must be smaller than 220606645 bytes (Service: Lambda, Status Code: 400, Request ID: ebc06c4a-2335-4e6a-80d0-3b74b17fcf93, Extended Request ID: null)" (RequestToken: 870432f5-7c12-60aa-1f1a-c226d272972a, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequest).

I didn't changed anything in index.php or serverless.yml. - How can I fix this?

My environment:
OS: Amazon Linux 2 (on VMware Workstation)
Bref Version: 1.2.14
Node Version: 16.9.1
Framework Version: 2.58.0
Plugin Version: 5.4.4
SDK Version: 4.3.0
Components Version: 3.17.0

Thank you!

[t-richard]

Not sure which instructions you followed but this is generally linked to a too big vendor folder or some unnecessary files likes images sent to Lambda.

You can see the sent zip in the .serverless folder and analyze what's inside to find the biggest files/folders. Note that the size that Lambda cares about is the unzipped size.

You can exclude files using this https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/packaging/#patterns

You can also try to reduce the vendor directory size by running composer install --no-dev. this will exclude dev dependencies that may account for a large portion of the directory.

Hope this helps 🙂

[r2x-ch]

Thank you for your fast reply, t-richard.

I followed the Getting Started instructions from the Documentation of the bref.sh Website and created a sample web app with command vendor/bin/bref init. It generates a simple index.php file and the serverless.yml file.

The biggest folder is "node_modules" which should be normally excluded by pattern - '!node_modules/**' in the generated serverless.yml file, but for any reasons it get's not excluded.

To get at all an idea about Bref: How big the app.zip file should normally be with only a 2 kB index.php file and only bref/bref installed via Composer?

[mnapoli]

Indeed the problem might be with node_modules. Check you are running the latest Serverless version.

Usually the zip should be much much much smaller.

[t-richard]

I created a sample project with only these files and bref/bref as the only dependency

.
├── composer.json
├── composer.lock
├── index.php
├── serverless.yml
└── vendor

This is 5.2MB unzipped.

For the node_modules that are not excluded, I can't think of a reason. Your version is the latest availble so this syntax should work. Is this node_modules folder at the root of the project or is it in a sub folder ?