Serverless offline complains about missing stack before the first deployment

Question

I am trying to run locally a serverless application, but it is throwing this error:

Stack with id <my_stack_id> does not exist

I didn't deploy the stack yet, just trying to run it locally. It is possible that the offline serverless plugin only works with an existing deployed stack?

Answer 1

You don't need to deploy your stack

Things you need to have to use serverless offline :

plugins:
  - serverless-offline

in your serverless.yml file

then run the command sls offline start

then you can call your lambda functions with sls invoke local