[anfrank]

Yeah I wouldn't go down the local stack path. IMHO, you should develop/test against real AWS services, and it falls on the tooling to make that experience fast/smooth.

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.

Think of it like your Lambda functions are Live Reloaded as you make changes to your code. You don't need to mock AWS services locally, and you don't have to wait for CloudFormation to deploy your changes.

Here’s a short demo (https://youtu.be/hnTSTm5n11g)

[joshuanapoli]

Live reloading sounds like it would relieve some pain with deployment. I'll try it out with SST.

[anfrank]

Awesome! We also have a super passionate community at https://launchpass.com/serverless-stack