Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience poor?

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SST

2. You need to change your code (wrapping your aws-sdk to connect to localhost) to use these mocking plugins. I posted elsewhere in this thread but checkout SST (https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack), it lets’ you work on your Lambda functions live without having to mock AWS services locally. Here’s a short demo (https://youtu.be/hnTSTm5n11g).

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Observable

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Napkin Beta

My co-founder and I built https://napkin.io for this reason. We thought the experience of onboarding and stitching together services with AWS was too complex. With Napkin you can deploy a Python API endpoint from our landing page with a single button click. We're actively developing this so any feedback of how we could make this better for your use case is welcome!

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Up by apex

I can also recommend serverless.com framework for local development and running lambdas offline. AWS provides a docker image for emulating DynamoDB which works great for local dev and will commonly be paired with lambdas. Another option I have used recently for implementing node web services is https://github.com/apex/up which also has a nice local dev experience.

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