---
title: "How to develop locally using serverless offline"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-develop-locally-using-serverless-offline-y-4-c3-fe
source_url: https://fauna.com/blog/develop-using-serverless-offline
type: article
source: "Fauna"
author: "Fauna Inc"
published: 2022-01-05T23:28:31.348Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:52:49.482Z
tags: ["aws", "faunadb", "general-programming", "serverless"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 30
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to develop locally using serverless offline

**[Fauna](https://daily.dev/sources/fauna)** · [@fauna641](https://daily.dev/fauna641) · 9 min read · 30 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The serverless offline plugin for Node.js allows you to emulate AWS Lambda and API Gateway on a local machine. The plugin starts an HTTP server locally to handle request lifecycles and invoke handlers. Developers can freely make changes to their code and run tests locally without worrying about impacting the rest of their team.

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Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#faunadb](https://daily.dev/tags/faunadb), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless)

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