This runs your code locally by emulating the Apache OpenWhisk environment. Please keep in mind, it's not a 100% perfect emulation, there may be some differences, but it works for the vast majority of users.
serverless invoke local --function functionName--functionor-fThe name of the function in your service that you want to invoke locally. Required.--pathor-pThe path to a json file holding input data to be passed to the invoked function. This path is relative to the root directory of the service. The json file should have event and context properties to hold your mocked event and context data.--dataor-dString data to be passed as an event to your function. Keep in mind that if you pass both--pathand--data, the data included in the--pathfile will overwrite the data you passed with the--dataflag.
serverless invoke local --function functionNameThis example will locally invoke your function.
serverless invoke --function functionName --data "hello world"serverless invoke --function functionName --data '{"a":"bar"}'node dataGenerator.js | serverless invoke local --function functionNameserverless invoke local --function functionName --path lib/data.jsonThis example will pass the json data in the lib/data.json file (relative to the root of the service) while invoking the specified/deployed function.
Currently, invoke local only supports the NodeJs