[kerryritter]

I typically write my Lambda functions as Nest apps, develop locally, and then deploy with the aws-serverless-express (or fastify) NPM package, and I enable The ability to trigger a kinesis/s3/etc events locally as well. The fact that my app gets deployed to Lambda doesn't really have any impact on my developer experience. What stops you from working locally?

[timdev2]

This has worked very well for me, too. I suppose it might start to break down if you're using some of the more complex AWS-specific offerings.

But if your function more or less resembles a little web app that maybe talks to S3 and DynamoDB, this works really well.