Environment variables when running locally

[yankeeinlondon]

When I run locally with:

node-lambda run

I am not getting the environment variables from the deploy.env file. Also, unlike the deployment commands there is no -f switch to choose a separate file (aka, for me this gives me ability to test locally the ENV of various environments).

[ersel]

It would be great to have the -f switch on local as well. The workaround I use is to mock env variables within the event.json file, and inside your lambda function you could do something like:

var environmentVar = process.env.databaseString || event.databaseString

So whilst running locally it will get the data from event object, if deployed to AWS it will use the environment variables.

[DeviaVir]

Thanks again @ersel for your PR fixing this issue, when the release is done it will be added via version 0.8.7