Alexa Skills can be developed using Alexa Lambda functions or a REST API endpoint. Lambda functions are Amazon’s implementation of serverless functions available in AWS. Amazon recommends using Lambda functions even though they are not easy to debug. While you can log to a CloudWatch log, you can’t hit a breakpoint and step into the code.
Alexa Skill With .NET Core
This makes live debugging of Alexa requests a challenge. This post explains a simple but useful solution: it is to wrap code in a .NET Standard class library and stand up a REST API project for debugging and development and a Lambda function project for AWS deployment. This article shows how to create an environment to debug a locally-hosted Web API that uses the same logic that is used by a Lambda function. Everything’s written in C#.
Alexa Skills can be developed using Alexa Lambda functions or a REST API endpoint. Lambda functions are Amazon’s implementation of serverless functions available in AWS. Amazon recommends using Lambda functions even though they are not easy to debug. While you can log to a CloudWatch log, you can’t hit a breakpoint and step into the code.
Alexa Skill With .NET Core
This makes live debugging of Alexa requests a challenge. This post explains a simple but useful solution: it is to wrap code in a .NET Standard class library and stand up a REST API project for debugging and development and a Lambda function project for AWS deployment. This article shows how to create an environment to debug a locally-hosted Web API that uses the same logic that is used by a Lambda function. Everything’s written in C#. […]
