How to test aws lambda functions locally

python node.js amazon-web-services aws-lambda serverless-framework
Supun Induwara picture Supun Induwara · Nov 24, 2015 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

I have a mobile application backend developed with node.js express. I tried it to deploy it as lambda service. For that I created a Serverless Framework project (https://github.com/serverless). Previously I tested mobile app locally by starting express backend application. Now I can't find a method to test my mobile app locally without local backend. jaws run command only run once I called it.

Is there any method to start the lambda function as a web service? Or is there any alternative to Serverless Framework?

Answer

Santiag00 picture Santiag00 · Nov 26, 2015

It doesn't look like there's way to do this right now, but version 1.4.0 is about to be released and, among other things, it should include a new command "jaws serve" which should address your problem.

Here's the PR: https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS/pull/269

UPDATE: you can now use the new serverless-serve plugin for this.

UPDATE 2: serverless-serve hasn't been updated in a while, it looks like serverless-offline is a much better option now to emulate Lambda functions.

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