Up Product Information and Latest Updates (2025)

Sounds great, I have a question What is the difference between Up and Serverless Framework? Do Up has any capability fro remote debugging of lambda functions?

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6yr ago

TJ Holowaychuk

Maker

@engmsaleh good question! The primary difference is that Up is designed specifically for existing paradigms, you write your app/API as you always would locally with any HTTP framework you like, and then `up` to deploy it. You could think of it as a serverless Heroku, letting you test apps locally very easily and use existing knowledge. Serverless (and others) by contrast require specific knowledge of the serverless ecosystems, where you're managing individual Lambda functions per-route, and writing your application to fit that model. I don't have remote debugging functionality right now, I'd have to look into that.

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6yr ago

Mohamed Saleh

@tjholowaychuk I'm personally using serverless framework and I agree with you as a start it is a bit of challenge I will give Up a shot In my opinion one of the most struggles that I have found when developing serverless in general is debugging if you make Up work for that I think it will be a huge addon 😄

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6yr ago

Navi

NocoDB

@engmsaleh @tjholowaychuk : Thanks for this Q&A. I always had this doubt myself about Up. So if I've understood it right - Up takes any http based app and makes-or-deploys a lambda (aws serverless) version of it ?

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6yr ago

TJ Holowaychuk

Maker

@engmsaleh @o1lab yep that's correct. Technically what it actually does is run your application inside of Lambda, via `node server.js`, or `./main` for binaries etc, and Up has an internal proxy which takes the Lambda API Gateway event, and translates it back into HTTP, forwarding it to your server. This is what lets Up provide middleware features such as CORS, logging, redirects, error pages and gzip compression as well. It sounds like it would introduce latency, but in practice it's very low, typically less than 1ms.

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6yr ago

Navi

NocoDB

@tjholowaychuk WOW ! That is really seamless !! The title in Up github is selling it short for me 😀 ! >>> Deploy ANY apps, apis, and sites within seconds as serverless in AWS (would be great) I've played with GCP cloud functions and had come across serverless.com framework. The whole concept of writing yaml in serverless.com is really not it. PS: Im a big fan of your work 😍😍 - Great moment for me to have interacted with you😀

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6yr ago

TJ Holowaychuk

Maker

Hello everyone! Up is a free and open-source tool for deploying and managing apps and APIs to your own AWS account in a single command, utilizing Lambda for near-infinite automatic scaling and extremely cost-effective on-demand pricing. Up is focused on deploying "vanilla" HTTP applications, there's no need to learn a new framework or manage individual Lambda functions—you can use Express.js, Koa, Golang, Django or whatever you prefer. You can think of it more like a serverless Heroku. Up Pro adds additional functionality such as encrypted per-stage environment variables, instant rollbacks, alerting, and a deployment log, for $10/mo — using the "product-hunt" coupon. There are no restrictions on many team members or the number of applications you can deploy.

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6yr ago

Tal Bereznitskey

Torii

@tjholowaychuk We've been using up for over 2 years for multiple projects. It just works amazingly well! Well done

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6yr ago

Tal Bereznitskey

Torii

@tjholowaychuk Oh... and I've written about the experience here https://hackernoon.com/lessons-l...

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6yr ago

Danić Filip

Koncept

The whole aesthetic and design looks way too much like Zeit.co and it’s off-putting.

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6yr ago

TJ Holowaychuk

Maker

@vandanic yeah the logo part was unfortunate, mine is supposed to be an "A" but kind of looks like a triangle. As for the aesthetic in general, I've always had a minimalistic monochrome style, long before Zeit existed. Hell their v2 stuff looks a lot like Up, it's basically a router in front of Lambda.

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6yr ago

Danić Filip

Koncept

@tjholowaychuk I’m sure that that’s how you see it and more power to you :)

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6yr ago

pete bray

Fathom Lexicon: ChatGPT enabled glossary

@vandanic @tjholowaychuk You gotta go w/ bigger fonts for us old timers. The tiny sliver fonts are really really hard to read for those of us who haven't yet made the journey to reading glasses.

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6yr ago

TJ Holowaychuk

Maker

@petebray ahah noted, thanks!

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6yr ago