I had exactly the same experience you describe. I’ve developed serverless code on Netlify and AWS Lambda. I managed to get what I needed working but it was la

I had exactly the same experience you describe. I’ve developed serverless code on Netlify and AWS Lambda. I managed to get what I needed working but it was laborious compared to typical local server development. I feel like most of the tools were written by devops folks because it’s quite easy to run these deployments in production, but the dev experience is lousy. The basics for developers is to be able to run the code locally and be able to run everything in a debugger. And that needs to include some sort of way to run services like dbs, queues etc. That’s just not possible as far as I can tell. They say that cloud is somebody else’s server, well serverless is just somebody else’s monolith, and you don’t get a copy of it to develop on. Not sure if it helps but here’s a demo IoT project I developed, has unit and integrations tests, it’s simple to understand, deployed using serverless: https://github.com/mjgs/serverless-books-api https://github.com/mjgs/serverless-books-api A few things I found useful: netlify-cli - CLI tool for interacting with the Netlify API, great for deploying to Netlify when you aren’t building your site on their infrastructure. netlify-lambda - CLI tool for building and running your Netlify functions locally. serverless framework - A CLI and web tool to build and deploy serverless architectures, includes supports for Amazon, Azure, Google among others. Makes it easy to configure and provision all the components of your Cloud Native application. These were taken from a blog post I wrote which some might find relevant: Cloud Native web application development: what's it all about? https://blog.markjgsmith.com/2021/01/12/cloud-native-web-application-development.html https://blog.markjgsmith.com/2021/01/12/cloud-native-web-app...