Local development

To run your applications locally with an architecture close to production you can use the sam command line tool from AWS.

PHP functions

The sam local invoke command invokes your function in a Docker container. You can provide an event if your function expects one.

For example, given this function:

lambda(function (array $event) {
    return 'Hello ' . ($event['name'] ?? 'world');
});

You can invoke it with or without event data:

$ sam local invoke --no-event
Hello world

$ echo '{"name": "John" }' | sam local invoke
Hello John

Learn more in the sam local documentation or run sam local invoke --help.

HTTP applications

The sam local start-api command starts Docker containers that will emulate AWS Lambda and API Gateway on your machine:

sam local start-api

Once started, your application will be available at http://localhost:3000.

Learn more in the sam local documentation or run sam local start-api --help.

If you want to keep things simple, remember that you can still run your PHP application like you did without Bref. For example with your favorite framework:

• Laravel via php artisan serve or Homestead or Laravel Valet
• Symfony via php bin/console server:start (documentation)

Using SAM is useful to test your application in an environment close to production.

Console applications

Console applications can be tested just like before: by running the command in your terminal.

For example with Symfony you can run bin/console <your-command> , or with Laravel run php artisan <your-command>.