# Testing Lambda Functions

**URL:** <https://answers.netlify.com/t/testing-lambda-functions/6263>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** lambda-functions\
**Created:** [December 15, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/testing-lambda-functions/6263 "2019-12-15T18:19:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![chasegarsee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/netlify/user_avatar/answers.netlify.com/chasegarsee/32/4958_2.png) [@chasegarsee](https://answers.netlify.com/u/chasegarsee)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/testing-lambda-functions/6263/4 "2019-12-17T23:24:30Z")

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Here’s a repo I just created to test out a very simple Netlify Lambda function with React.

> **[GitHub - chasegarsee/react-netlify-test](https://github.com/chasegarsee/react-netlify-test)**
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> Contribute to chasegarsee/react-netlify-test development by creating an account on GitHub.

One thing to note, when I ran the terminal command `netlify-lambda serve` to deploy locally, it didn’t seem to work for me.

I added this in my package.json  
`start:lambda": "netlify-lambda serve functions`

then ran this command and it worked beautifully.  
`npm run start:lambda`

Give it a look and see if you can come up with anything!

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