Many existing faas services provide system packages in the execution environment that allow functions to use them without the need for them to be included a package.json. This would definitely make build times faster, since if the function itself has no explicit dependencies, there is no reason to use npm install.
An example: Google Cloud Functions
Many existing faas services provide system packages in the execution environment that allow functions to use them without the need for them to be included a package.json. This would definitely make build times faster, since if the function itself has no explicit dependencies, there is no reason to use
npm install.An example: Google Cloud Functions