miragejs VS public-apis

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For the styles, I'll be using TailwindCSS. To simulate API requests Mirage JS will be used, which is a very easy to use and useful API mocking library. To call this API, we're going to use Fetch.

during development we use mirage JS to spin up an in-browser mock server which returns mock data for any API endpoints not currently implemented by the real backend. during integration testing we configure this server to return mock data for all API endpoints in the system, giving us a fixed environment against which our tests can run. test suites can be run in parallel since each time a playwright page is opened a new copy of the webapp, and thus a new copy of the mock server, is launched. these integration tests run whenever a frontend PR is opened or updated.

Mirage JS is specifically built for this purpose as well. It‘s a frontend JavaScript library meant for mocking backend APIs. https://miragejs.com/

We use miragejs https://miragejs.com/

The best case scenario you would be using something like MirageJS, MSW, or even JSON Server, but mocking fetch is always an option.

Mirage JS is pretty useful and allows you to create complex testing scenarios with its embedded db. Useful when you have relationships between your models.

Mirage JS: Mirage JS is an API mocking library that lets you build, test, and share a complete working JavaScript application without having to rely on any backend services.

For inspirations on what type of agents I should build, I turned to the Public APIs GitHub repository which has a curated lists of free APIs. I narrowed my search for an API that does not require sign-up or an API key and returns useful information. I ultimately decided to use the Free Currency Exchange Rates API, which seemed promising upon some basic testing.

✅ public-apis/public-apis : https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Public-Apis Github Repo — A list of free public APIs.

Interesting thread at https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104

Use curl to access a free public API and get a random joke, cat fact, or whatever.

I remember the forking of https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis and the long git issue discussions. The company owning the repository stopped maintaining it but didn't give up control either. Over the years you've put in a lot of work in publicapis.dev and that is much appreciated.

Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things.

For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way);

[1]: https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis

[2]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...