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Today, we have better solutions like AWS Toolkit extension that provides both debugging, build, and local invoke.

Requirements

• Software
  • Python 3
  • Docker
  • SAM Local
• Linux or OSX

Quick start

We need to bootstrap our environment quickly in order to have both SAM Local and DynamoDB Local to play together nicely:

1. Create a docker network

docker network create sam-demo

2. Run and Bootstrap DynamoDB Local

You need to install boto3 and faker library to bootstrap dynamo (pip install faker boto3), or simply use AWS CLI

docker run -d -v "$PWD":/dynamodb_local_db -p 8000:8000 --network sam-demo --name dynamodb cnadiminti/dynamodb-local
python bootstrap_dynamodb.py -t "users" --hash-key "id"

3. Create local development environment and run

make build-dev SERVICE="users"
sam local start-api --docker-network sam-demo

4. Test API locally

curl localhost:3000/getUsers