Is there a way to test AppSync code locally and/or

Question

I am looking to dive into a project using AppSync. So far I have been able to find plenty of articles and such online giving all the steps as to what buttons to click in order to get a sample project running, but none of them seem to touch on how one deals with it from a local development or in a CI/CD environment. Its probably my "old school" idea of how dev usually works, but I was expecting some way to simulate enough of the environment locally to do development and run unit tests, but I can't seem to find any way to do just that. And when I get to the UI portion I have no idea how to have a local dev instance of the backend to run against.

Do people not develop in this way anymore, opting to instead stand up a "development stack"? I just want to make sure I am not painting myself into a corner in the future.

Answer 1

Here is a way to test your Appsync resolvers directly on AWS console. In the AppSync console, in the Schema tab, select a resolver and you will land into an "Edit resolver" page. Select the button "Select Test Context" to simulate a context received by your resolver. Then select "Run test".