A hello world http API implemented with AWS SAM looks like:

func handler(request events.APIGatewayProxyRequest) (events.APIGatewayProxyResponse, error) {
		return events.APIGatewayProxyResponse{
				StatusCode: 200,
				Headers: map[string]string{
						"Content-Type": "text/plain",
				},
				Body: "Hello World",
		}, nil
}

func main() {
		lambda.Start(handler)
}

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Why didn’t they simply abstract this insane interface with the standard, portable and beautiful HTTP request response model?

func main() {
	addr := ":" + os.Getenv("PORT")
	http.HandleFunc("/", hello)
	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(addr, nil))
}

func hello(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Hello World")
}

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SAM’s events.APIGatewayProxyRequest is just awful to use. You have to test it within a Docker environment which is ~5s slow. If you use the standard interface, you can simply use the gin reloader and you have a very fast iterative workflow.

This is why I still use Apex Up to develop my Go HTTP functions. Allows me to use a standard sane interface and allows for a sane local workflow for fast, joyful development iterations.

What happens if Apex up is no more?

I recommend using Apex Up, but what happens if it falls away?

Apex Up author and savant @tjholowaychuk published his critical https://github.com/apex/gateway mapping and you can recreate Apex Up functionality labouriously with AWS SAM like so: https://github.com/kaihendry/aws-sam-gateway-example