json-server VS WireMock

JSON Server

Our backend will be little more than a two-way translation layer between the database and the user interface (UI). Later in this post we will identify other responsibilities of a backend but our implementation will be kept simple to demonstrate the fundamental machinery and concepts. It is worth noting the backend comes in two parts, web server and application server. Both json-server and Express are able to facilitate these roles from the same URL. This is very useful for our tutorial because we do not have to configure the server to manage Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). It is quite typical for production systems to separate these server roles for all sorts of good reasons but for now it would just create an additional complication.

JSON-Server creates fake REST API with a minimum amount of configuration, it provides a simple way to create mock RESTful APIs and easily define the required endpoints, allows easy definition of the data schema in a JSON file and can serve as a reference for each figure in the project.

I thought about usingJson Server (hosting the repo with the words on Github to begin with), Googlesheets, or maybe Firestore (i would prefer not to use it ,to avoid extra costs just in case it gets a reasonable amount of users). It isnt a big app so i just want a simple solution for storing the words and fetching them.

There is https://github.com/typicode/json-server that is really useful for that matter

JSON server https://github.com/typicode/json-server

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https://github.com/wiremock/wiremock is one such tool.

Check out https://wiremock.org/

Me and my company use WireMock a lot, it's nice tool but didn't find any nice ways to integrate with PHPUnit. What is WireMock you may ask - it's tool for mocking http requests/responses, like 3-rd apis https://wiremock.org. Wanted to use our tool which was under private repository in other projects I work in, so decided to release our own in-house WireMock integration with PHPUnit as library so it can be used by other people - https://packagist.org/packages/cobiro/wiremock, features are pretty simple:

A nightmare indeed! Try wiremock

Yes I agree, mocking is a bit of an overloaded term, and the libraries we used for stubbing like gRPC Mock and WireMock also have `mock` in their name, even though they are real servers with stubbing