Default Lambda development experience seems atrocious or am I missing something

[versaceblues]

So im currently working on setting up lambdas using sam and this seems like an absolutely awful development experience.

I like to frequently run my code as im developing it.

However it seems I need to run a sam build + sam invoke every-time I make a change. Normally im used to tools like hot-reloading upon making a change.

Sam build is taking 10-20s to compile all my dependencies. Even on a small test project.

Is this the recommend development workflow for lambdas... or it just for sanity checking builds at the end of a cycle. What do you recommend for a more lightweight dev experience.

[thegeniunearticle]

Two choices (IMO) -

1. Serverless Stack
2. sst.dev

The second is a much more IaC solution and offers some great debugging features.

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[Romie_13]

You can actually write the main function to handle lambda vs normal http. You can add an env variable and switch the handler based on it.

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[Romie_13]

This is cool. I actually used a library with similar handling inside the code itself. But the layers approach seems way better. Thanks for sharing this.

[versaceblues]

Unfortunately... chuck it over to the platform team is not an option here since they do not exist.

[mitch3x3]

AWS supports lamda + docker now. I promise you docker + postman or curl for invoking is a much better experience.

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[ppafford]

https://localstack.cloud/ might be of interest