Nock
HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js (by nock)
json-server
Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously) (by typicode)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Nock
Posts with mentions or reviews of Nock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-13.
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Contract Testing?
So, why would you want a REAL server to mock request/reponses? You have a lot of intercepts today that sit on the network layer and you can define things like "If you send request to that endpoint, with that json, please return that Status" (for NodeJS example, Nock - https://github.com/nock/nock)
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I made wirepig, a simple way to mock HTTP and TCP dependencies in tests.
That said, folks seem to like "recording" features in these sorts of tools (Ruby's VCR, nock, etc), so maybe there's a future where I add something similar. I've always just found the ergonomics of those features awkward to deal with, especially having to flip back and forth between tests and fixtures files to figure out what's wired to what, but maybe there's a clean solution... perhaps a "live request" mode that just prints mock code snippets of request/response pairs passing through your app.
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Is there a better way to mock an axios call?
While not mocking per say I usually use nock for http calls. You can use nock.recorder.rec() to capture the http call to play back during test, That way you are always using "live" code but not making real calls to servers.
- How do you practice with React without setting up your own backend?
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OSD600 - Telescope - Testing for feed URLs
I looked at the service which is used to get the feed URLs from a blog URL and noticed it takes the html response of the blog URL and gets the links ( tags) by checking the type attribute value against a list of valid feed values. So, I decided to use a similar approach by getting the html response for a provided URL and checking the Content-Type header against a list of valid MIME types for a feed. I ended up updating the logic to test if a URL is a feed URL, returning it if true. If the URL is found to not be a feed URL, it would try to get the feed URLs assuming the URL is a blog URL. I tested and confirmed that the new logic worked for both blog and feed URLs. Then, I added some tests for the new function I added to test for a feed URL. Testing this ended up being simpler than I expected as all I had to do was mock the response of a test url (using nock), and then check if the function returned the correct boolean value for a url. I created a PR and noticed that some of the tests in another file were now failing. While I was investigating this, I got a review on my PR, requesting me to add another test to the file which had the failing tests. That file tested the API service as a whole. I found out that nock only mocks a URL's response for one request by default. And since I was now checking for a feed URL as well, the function which returned the feed URLs from a blog URL was throwing an error since the nock for that was used up. To fix this, I had to specify in the nock statement to mock the URL response for two requests:
- What features would you consider missing/nice to haves for backend web development in Rust?
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Axios shipped a buggy version and it broke many productions apps. Let this be a lesson to pin your dependencies!
There are libraries like https://github.com/nock/nock to prevent mocking the whole axios.
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How to test an endpoint that depends on external API?
Use nock: https://github.com/nock/nock
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How to mock a useQuery in jest?
Going based off the documentation I sent you in my last reply, there is an example that uses nock to emulate api responses. I haven't used nock myself, but the example seems pretty simple to use. You just need to take the example and change the response object to be the shape of what your getStuffFromDatabase function returns. That way your useCategory function runs as close to normally as possible, while providing a mock response value instead of hitting the database.
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Is it acceptable to use mock servers, like Postman, for testing in Android?
If you’re willing to venture into nodejs territory, then nock is a fantastic and simple to set up http mock server. https://github.com/nock/nock
json-server
Posts with mentions or reviews of json-server.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
- Usando Spring Boot RestClient
- JSON-server relicensed to Fair Source License
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Using json-server to create a mock back-end for front-end development
JSON Server
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Full Stack To Do list, a step-by-step tutorial
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.
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Improve Frontend-Backend development harmony with JSON-Server
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.
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Dictionary app
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.
- JSON Server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds
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You can serve static data over HTTP
There is https://github.com/typicode/json-server that is really useful for that matter
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which backend technology do you see having the brightest future? (for jobs)
JSON server https://github.com/typicode/json-server
- What part of Frontend you don't like doing, but have to do it?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Nock and json-server you can also consider the following projects:
msw - Seamless REST/GraphQL API mocking library for browser and Node.js.
Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
http-proxy - A full-featured http proxy for node.js
Lowdb - Simple and fast JSON database
node-fetch - A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js
axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
WireMock - A tool for mocking HTTP services
superagent - Ajax for Node.js and browsers (JS HTTP client). Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.
Next.js - The React Framework
miragejs - A client-side server to build, test and share your JavaScript app
http-server - a simple zero-configuration command-line http server