title: how to test Cloud Functions for Firebase locally on pc
body: <p>Today Firebase released its brand new product <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/" rel="noreferrer">Cloud Functions for Firebase</a> and I just created a hello world function and deploy it on my existing firebase project.</p>
  
  <p>It looks like it bundles all dependencies and upload it to firebase just like <strong>aws lambda function</strong> does. But it takes too much time to be done even on minor changes in code and also need a good connectivity of internet . If you are offline for some reason, you are just in dark what code you are writing until you have a way to execute and test that functions offline on your local machine.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Is there any way to test Cloud Functions for Firebase locally?</strong></p>