Amazon AWS Lambda: Cannot find "Request"

Question

I'm using the AWS Lambda Function in the Amazon AWS Online-Builder. I'm using nodejs 6.10. and I want to require the reuest module with var test = require("request"). But the response is: "errorMessage": "Cannot find module 'request'", I'm also including the module http with var http = require('http'); and this works. Anyone an idea, why I cannot require "request"? THANKS!

Answer 1

You need to have add a dependency for the request module in your package.json file. Something like:

"dependencies": { "request": "2.88.0" }

There is a good description of how to add node modules to a function at https://github.com/serverless/serverless/issues/948