Issue with serverless local development

[khalidx]

Strange error when running npm run serverless:dev. On first request, the error below occurs. Also, it seems that DynamoDb is not starting up on port 8000.

No requests are testable locally to any endpoints defined in serverless.yml

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8000
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1141:16) {
  errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  code: 'NetworkingError',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '127.0.0.1',
  port: 8000,
  region: 'localhost',
  hostname: 'localhost',
  retryable: true,
  time: 2020-09-13T03:39:21.731Z
}