I'm biased but for local development, I prefer to emulate the least amount of AWS services. You don't have to deal with any gotchas while going to prod.
Some background, with SST we connect your local environment to the services deployed to AWS and just run the Lambda functions locally: https://docs.sst.dev/live-lambda-development
Wow that antivirus warning on the docs is super weird. It's just a very simple docs site deployed through Netlify. Can you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing? I'll need to dig into it: jay@serverless-stack.com
seems like the issue has been fixed since but it was quite strange. my AV would not let me load the website (similar to how it blocks some websites) as it would detect that netlify address, if you could investigate this that would be great.
will follow up with an email when i get the chance.
Sorry to hear that you've had some bad experiences with SST. Recently we shipped some updates to fix the CPU issues with apps that have a large number of functions. The missing breakpoints I think is related as well.
That said though, we often work with teams in our Slack to get their setup working well. If you haven't, I'd recommend popping in and posting about it. Or just send me an email: jay@serverless-stack.com and we'll figure it out.
Yup it's meant to be a starting point for projects of all sizes. We built our own stuff using it as well. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Or join us on Slack: https://launchpass.com/serverless-stack