The typescript runtime was recently added to openwhisk but we do not yet have docs for the runtime and it is missing from runtimes.json.

We need a doc like https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/docs/actions-nodejs.md for typescript functions.

Adding the runtime to the runtime manifest can be done per https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/blob/master/docs/actions-new.md#the-

synk report issue

Description

We are synk (https://snyk.io/) for checking used packages.

Synk is complaining about a security issue for serverless-step-functions.
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DOTPROP-543489

Additional Data

• Serverless Framework Core Version you're using: 1.64.1
• The Plugin Version you're using: 2.17.1
• Operating System: macOS Majove 10.14

currently you have to run composer twice, once to generate the function code and again to generate the ast (needed for k/o-ui visualization).

it would be convenient to run compose once and specify two different files for output.

If the npm package that is defined by https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-runtime-nodejs/blob/master/core/nodejs8Action/package.json was published to npm then projects would be able to depend on it and get the current set of js dependencies present in OW. Those projects building with webpack would also be able to exclude those packages from their builds, making their images smaller.

I don't think it's a necessary requirement that the main function in a zip action is located in the file index.php. If we adopt the aws lambda convention of path/to/file.handler then it's possible to locate the "index" anywhere in the zip and this is an added convenience particularly working with existing php code.