Installing Serverless Framework as a standalone binary

As explained in the Setup page, the recommended way to install Serverless Framework is via NPM.

If you don't want to install Node or NPM, you can install the serverless CLI as a standalone binary instead.

MacOS/Linux

To install the latest version, run this command in your terminal:

curl -o- -L https://slss.io/install | bash

To install a specific version, you may set a VERSION variable, for example:

curl -o- -L https://slss.io/install | VERSION=2.72.2 bash

Then, open another terminal window to run the serverless program.

Upgrade

On macOS/Linux, upgrade Serverless Framework to the latest version by running:

serverless upgrade

# You can also restrict the upgrade to the latest v2 version:
curl -o- -L https://slss.io/install | VERSION=2.72.2 bash

Windows

Install Serverless Framework with Chocolatey:

choco install serverless

Upgrade

On Windows, upgrade Serverless Framework to the latest version by running:

choco upgrade serverless

Next steps

Now that Serverless Framework is installed, get back to the Setup guide to create your first project.