Testing calls to external APIs

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    I list my Gitlab projects with https://github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab, and in a test I wrote for the method listing and displaying my projects, I create a mock http server, that responds by returning the json response of a call to the Gitlab API.

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    Mocking the http client with explicit responses; for example using h2non/gock

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    Mocking the http client using recorded responses; for example using dnaeon/go-vcr

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