Do some developers actually, REALLY, have no local environment and run everything in AWS? Is the individual cloud dev environment a real alternative to having things running locally?

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  • I run my personal project on AWS. I has been running for 4+ years now and I never had a local environment. I took the serverless route. That is appsync, lambda, dynamodb, sqs to build the stack. I'm using serverless.com to have all the resources defined in a yaml files which will deploy multiple stacks. I'm using seed.run to manage that part because it's much more simple than to do it manually.

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  • I run my personal project on AWS. I has been running for 4+ years now and I never had a local environment. I took the serverless route. That is appsync, lambda, dynamodb, sqs to build the stack. I'm using serverless.com to have all the resources defined in a yaml files which will deploy multiple stacks. I'm using seed.run to manage that part because it's much more simple than to do it manually.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Moto

    A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.

  • You should be able to unit test your application on any device. (I use moto to help there.) And then when you want to ensure that you've given your lambda the right security groups or whatever, you deploy to a real but non-production lambda, and that deployment can be from anywhere.

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