Getting started 🚀

Creating a new Backpack project

In order to use Backpack, you first need to set up Nexus as private npm registry. Additionally, ensure that Node.js 22 is installed on your system.

Once your environment is ready, you can generate a new project skeleton using the Backpack CLI with the following command:

shell

npx @backpack/cli generate-project my-project

Replace "my-project" with the name of your project.

For existing projects, we recommend to adopt Backpack gradually, in a step-by-step manner.

Please check out our dedicated migration guide to learn how you can do this.

Using @ns/common-serverless-library?

We adopted most utilities of this existing library, and provide them in Backpack as well. Please look at this migration guide to learn more.

For inspiration, take a look at our demo projects and explore the examples.

To build your own serverless app with Backpack we offer some how-to guides. To get started, have a look at setting up a Lambda function.