Ask HN: What Is a Good Toolset for Serveless Development?

1 points by voycey 7y ago ↗ HN

We use AWS Lambda quite a lot in our tooling for various things and whilst I can definitely see that it solves a few problems associated with the traditional 'server hosted code' (infinite scaling / portability etc) I have never found developing the lambda functions particularly fun.

We currently use Cloud9 as it seems to have a decent deployment capability built into it for Lambda, however I am aware that this isn't exactly portable and I have found that the response is different when deployed via AWS API Gateway than through the in built testing tools.

What development environments are people using to develop larger serverless deployments? Is everyone using serverless.com/framework/? Is there something better?

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adjohn 7y ago ↗

We're happy users of both Serverless Framework as well as SAM (AWS). Serverless Framework offers a pretty rich set of plugins which provides a lot of extensibility out of the box including function warming, webpack, instrumentation and many others.

Shameless plug alert: we also dogfood IOpipe, our own dev tooling for Lambda. IOpipe[1] gives us near realtime errors, logs, tracing, and CPU/mem profiling capabilities that we're used to having in "traditional" development environments.

[1] - https://www.iopipe.com/features

voycey 7y ago ↗

Thanks! What kind of development environment is usually used? IDE's, environments etc?

IOPipe looks interesting - will check it out as I dig deeper!