How do you guys debug serverless functions?

2•trunci•8mo ago

Having a hard time trying to debug my serverless functions, other than just deploying them on Vercel and waiting to test on the client. Especially challenging because they run on DB triggers... not sure if there is a better way? Anyone knows?

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PaulHoule•8mo ago

(1) logs, (2) keep it simple, (3) have a good test harness

trunci•8mo ago

I feel that for small changes that's fine, but for testing and building functions from the ground up that's still hard

1oooqooq•8mo ago

classical case of: reached the time to pay that tech debit.

you're pushing code you cannot test and debug on a local env, which you should have had before your first prod push.

mmarian•8mo ago

Best way is to add unit tests. Next best is to have a test environment. Don't recommend service tests with test containers, too complicated.

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