serverless-express

The first two paragraphs of this post come across as unnecessarily defensive and combative. Amazon released a product and then released an open source preview project to make that product easier to use. They even mention other similar projects (including Zappa) in the project README. To hint at malice "...it felt like their interface and even their presentation of the product was a direct rip-off of our efforts" and then say "I don't want to attribute any direct malice" seems disingenuous. I feel like those fist two paragraphs could just be cut. Many people have found the Lambda + API Gateway combo useful, but cumbersome which is why so many different projects have sprouted up to fill that gap e.g. https://github.com/serverless/serverless and https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia Even AWS themselves have multiple preview projects in the sa

Check out our example on github https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-express/tree/maste.... The lambda wrapper is very thin (4 LOC). So you have two options: run/test your express app locally as you always would, or use the provided `npm run local` command which simulates the API Gateway+Lambda part (you can modify the `api-gateway-event.json` to change the "request" from API Gateway). This is primarily an example and starting point, and there is much more you could do to improve this process.