I prefer the the exact opposite approach. I don't want to learn any new tools however easy they might be when a one time effort (few lines of code) can give you

I prefer the the exact opposite approach. I don't want to learn any new tools however easy they might be when a one time effort (few lines of code) can give you a dependency free development/deployment mechanism. Ref: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-serverless/tree/master/aws-nodejs/apollo-sequelize https://github.com/hasura/graphql-serverless/tree/master/aws... Basic idea is to use an ENV var to specify local development and expose a simple http server for local development. Deployment can be done by the very easy AWS console itself.