So it's been a long time, but I thought this was a neat little trick so I thought I'd share it with the world - as little followers as I have. In my spare time I've been writing up a new hobby project in Serverless , and while I do maintain a staging and production environment in AWS, it means I need to do a deployment every time I want to test all of the API's I've drafted for it. Not wanting to disturb the yaml configuration for running it locally, I've come up with a simple outline of a server which continues to use the same configuration. Take the express driven server I first define here: And then put a index.js in your routes folder to contain this code: Voila! This will take the request from your localhost and interpret the path against your serverless.yml and run the configured function. Hope this helps someone!