MerLoc
Dev tools
serverless local development
SHOW HN2022
111points
48comments
#565of 2,570 in 2022
Top 22%of 2022 by points
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4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 3 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Solves a real pain point in Lambda development
From 3 comments
This is actually a tool i’d need to use - thank you for creating it. However i cant help but notice how large corps, such as amazon, build products on top of freely available…
yrgulation on HNThis is awesome and something I definitely would use for my docker and node based lambdas. Looking forward to this project adding more labmda backends!
gee_totes on HNthis looks like a great solution to problems in serverless application development. I would be interested in how this does or does not overlap with the AWS toolkit:…
spatley on HN
Lets functions run against real AWS services and events
From 2 comments
That looks cool! Though it looks like it only works for Java-based Lambdas, unfortunately. Does it only work with HTTP Lambdas / manual invocations, or does it also play well…
cube2222 on HNDisclaimer: I'm the co-founder and CTO of LocalStack (https://localstack.cloud) This looks awesome, congrats Serkan and team! Indeed, looks similar to SST, with the extensions…
whummer on HN
Objections
Only supports Java runtime; Node.js is not yet supported
From 2 comments
Hi, Yes it is only for Java runtime but Node.js runtime is also in our near-term roadmap. If you are looking for Node.js runtime, could you please upvote issue here:…
sozal on HNYes, there any many serverless people looking for Node support. Could you please thumbs-up its feature request here: https://github.com/thundra-io/merloc/issues/1
sozal on HN
Runs against real cloud services, so it needs AWS credentials and is not fully offline
From 1 comment
Hi, LocalStack is great tool but the difference here is that MerLoc runs your function in local against real cloud services with the same credentials of your real AWS Lambda…
sozal on HN
Requests
Add Node.js runtime support
From 3 comments
I find the debugging and testing process pretty slow with AWS SAM so I may have to try this out when you have a Node runtime.
somethingAlex on HNThis is awesome and something I definitely would use for my docker and node based lambdas. Looking forward to this project adding more labmda backends!
gee_totes on HNDoes the hotreload feature comes out of the box? Is there any limitation regarding what can we reload while debugging? Could you expand that feature a bit?
aoozdemir on HN
Questions
How does it differ from SAM local
From 1 comment
What does this do that SAM local can’t do for testing Lambdas locally and “sam sync” for deploying a single function?…
scarface74 on HN
How does it differ from SST and the AWS IDE toolkits
From 2 comments
How is MerLoc different from SST?
vasinov on HNthis looks like a great solution to problems in serverless application development. I would be interested in how this does or does not overlap with the AWS toolkit:…
spatley on HN
Alternatives named
SAM local and sam sync
From 1 comment
What does this do that SAM local can’t do for testing Lambdas locally and “sam sync” for deploying a single function?…
scarface74 on HN
LocalStack
From 2 comments
Doesn't something like localstack.cloud help with this need? I've just recently inherited some NodeJS lambdas and am thinking of looking into that to debug/develop locally.
tunesmith on HNLocalStack is open source: https://github.com/localstack/localstack Looks like they're starting a Pro version that requires signup/payment.
andrewryno on HN
SST
From 1 comment
How is MerLoc different from SST?
vasinov on HN
AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ, PyCharm and VS Code
From 1 comment
this looks like a great solution to problems in serverless application development. I would be interested in how this does or does not overlap with the AWS toolkit:…
spatley on HN