WireMock VS hoverfly

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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

Use https://github.com/SpectoLabs/hoverfly

Hoverfly is an open-source tool for mocking and simulating APIs. It is relatively easy to use and has a wide range of features for mocking and simulating APIs, including support for importing and exporting mock configurations, generating random data for responses, and setting up conditional responses based on the contents of incoming requests.

Depending how robust their check in is, you could intercept and emulate the reply with something like hoverfly too.

What is your recommendation? Is there one widely used in the Golang community? I have come across hoverfly, but I wanted to have a few to perform a good benchmark exercise. Thanks