Fastly Compute Context Utility

NOTE: @fastly/compute-js-context is provided as a Fastly Labs product. Visit the Fastly Labs site for terms of use.

@fastly/compute-js-context exposes Fastly Compute resources to your Compute JavaScript application. It provides it as one typed, immutable context object, or as a custom, strongly-typed object mapping your service's specific resource names to their handles.

The Context Object

The core export is createContext, which returns a single, immutable Context object.

type Context = Readonly<{
  ACLS: Acls;
  BACKENDS: Backends;
  CONFIG_STORES: ConfigStores;
  ENV: Env;
  KV_STORES: KVStores;
  LOGGERS: Loggers;
  SECRET_STORES: SecretStores;
}>;

Each top-level field is a Proxy. Accessing a property lazily looks up and caches the corresponding runtime object. Unknown names return undefined.

Features

• A single source of truth: grab everything off ctx.*
• Typed and safe: TypeScript-first, with undefined for optional resources
• Lazy + memoized: nothing is created until accessed
• Readonly: the Context is immutable
• Customizable: use buildContextProxy to create a bespoke, typed binding object for your app

Installation

Requires a Fastly Compute JavaScript project (@fastly/js-compute).

npm install @fastly/compute-js-context

Quick start

This example shows basic usage of the main Context object.

/// <reference types="@fastly/js-compute" />
import { createContext } from '@fastly/compute-js-context';

addEventListener('fetch', (event) => event.respondWith(handler(event)));
async function handler(event) {
  const ctx = createContext();

  // Environment - simple strings (or empty string if not present)
  console.log('FASTLY_SERVICE_VERSION', ctx.ENV.FASTLY_SERVICE_VERSION);

  // Secret Store - property is the SecretStore object, or undefined if not configured
  const awsSecrets = ctx.SECRET_STORES.AWS_CREDENTIALS;
  const keyId = await awsSecrets?.get('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID');
  console.log('key id', keyId?.plaintext());

  // Backend - pass to fetch() options, or learn about the backend
  const origin = ctx.BACKENDS.origin;
  const res = await fetch("/", { backend: origin });

  // Logger - send output to a named Fastly logging endpoint.
  const myLogEndpoint = ctx.LOGGERS.my_log_endpoint;
  myLogEndpoint?.log(`${event.request.url} ${event.client.address}`);

  return new Response("ok");
}

Typed Bindings with buildContextProxy

For an even better developer experience, buildContextProxy creates a typed object that maps your application's specific binding names to the underlying Fastly resources. This gives you shorter names and better autocompletion.

First, define your bindings. The key is the name you want to use, and the value is a string identifying the resource type and (optionally) the resource name if it differs from the key.

Then, pass these definitions to buildContextProxy().

/// <reference types="@fastly/js-compute" />
import { buildContextProxy, type BindingsDefs } from '@fastly/compute-js-context';

// Define your application's bindings
const bindingsDefs = {
  // Simple mapping: key 'assets' maps to KVStore named 'assets'
  assets: 'KVStore',
  
  // Remapping: key 'origin' maps to Backend named 'origin-s3'
  origin: 'Backend:origin-s3',

  // Explicit mapping for a logger
  auditLog: 'Logger:audit_log',
} satisfies BindingsDefs; // <-- for full type safety

// This is the generated type for your bindings object
type Bindings = ContextProxy<typeof bindingsDefs>;

addEventListener('fetch', (event) => event.respondWith(handler(event)));
async function handler(event: FetchEvent): Promise<Response> {
  // Create the typed environment
  const bindings: Bindings = buildContextProxy(bindingsDefs);

  // Now use your custom bindings!
  const asset = await bindings.assets?.get('/index.html');
  
  const res = await fetch("/", { backend: bindings.origin });

  bindings.auditLog?.log('Request received');

  return new Response(asset);
}

API

createContext(): Context

Creates the main immutable Context. Each sub-object is a Proxy that:

• Resolves lazily on first property access
• Caches the resolved handle for subsequent accesses
• Returns undefined for names that don’t exist (except for ENV, which returns '')
• Is not enumerable by design (don’t rely on Object.keys)

buildContextProxy<T>(bindingsDefs: T): ContextProxy<T>

Creates a custom, strongly-typed proxy object based on your definitions.

• bindingsDefs: A const object defining your desired bindings
  • Key: The property name you want on your final contextProxy object
  • Value: A string in the format 'ResourceType' or 'ResourceType:actual-name'
• Returns: A proxy object contextProxy with your custom bindings. Accessing a property on this object looks up the resource from the main Context

Type ContentProxy<T>

Defines a type that represents the content proxy, inferred from your bindings definitions.

(Advanced) buildContextProxyOn<C, T>(target: C, bindingsDefs: T): C & ContextProxy<T>

Extends the passed-in object with a custom, strongly-typed proxy object based on your definitions.

• target: An object to extend
• bindingsDefs: A const object defining your desired bindings
  • Key: The property name you want on your final contextProxy object
  • Value: A string in the format 'ResourceType' or 'ResourceType:actual-name'
• Returns: A proxy object contextProxy that extends target with your custom bindings. Accessing a property on this object looks up the resource from the main Context before falling back to target.

Context Categories & Shapes

These are the raw shapes available on the main Context object.

• ENV: Readonly<Record<string, string>>
• SECRET_STORES: Readonly<Record<string, SecretStore | undefined>>
• CONFIG_STORES: Readonly<Record<string, ConfigStore | undefined>>
• KV_STORES: Readonly<Record<string, KVStore | undefined>>
• BACKENDS: Readonly<Record<string, Backend | undefined>>
• LOGGERS: Readonly<Record<string, Logger | undefined>>
• ACLS: Readonly<Record<string, Acl | undefined>>

Caveats

• Don’t enumerate category proxies; treat them as name-indexed lookups
• Don’t mutate the context or its sub-objects; it’s intentionally Readonly
• Expect undefined for missing resources and code accordingly (?./guard)

Issues

If you encounter any non-security-related bug or unexpected behavior, please file an issue using the bug report template.

Security issues

Please see our SECURITY.md for guidance on reporting security-related issues.

License

MIT.