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Andrei L
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🚧 Configure MSW in NX

#msw #nx #javascript #typescript

Mock Service Worker (MSW) is an API mocking library for browser and Node.
— https://mswjs.io/

Nx is a set of extensible dev tools for monorepos, which helps you develop like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
— https://nx.dev/

To get started with nx just execute

yarn create nx-workspace
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And it will assist you to setup your monorepo.

After you are done with monorepo setup, go into that directory and install msw

yarn add --dev msw
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msw is using a service worker that handles all requests. Execute bellow command to to generate a service worker file that will be loaded in your app.

yarn msw init apps/your-app-name/src
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Now you should have a new file in your repo

apps/your-app-name/src/mockServiceWorker.js
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Next step is to include this file in our app assets.
Open your workspace.json file and find assets array located at this path

/projects/your-app-name/architect/build/options/assets
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and include msw created file in assets array

{
  "projects": {
    "your-app-name": {
      "architect": {
        "build": {
          "options": {
            "assets": [
              "apps/your-app-name/src/favicon.ico",
              "apps/your-app-name/src/assets",
              "apps/your-app-name/src/mockServiceWorker.js"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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Now we have to create a file where we will create all our request handlers. This file will be created at this location.

apps/your-app-name/src/mocks.ts
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And add some handler in mocks.ts

import { setupWorker, rest } from 'msw';

const myResourceHandler = rest.get('/api/my-resource', (req, res, ctx) =>
  res(
    ctx.status(200),
    ctx.json({
      items: [],
    }),
  ),
);

const worker = setupWorker(myResourceHandler);

worker.start();
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To hook msw into our app, open file

apps/your-app-name/src/main.ts
# or main.tsx if you are using React
apps/your-app-name/src/main.tsx
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And import mocks.ts at the top of the file

import './mocks';
// ...
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Start the app

yarn start --open
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Now if you will make a fetch request to /api/my-resource you will get the response that was configured in mocks.ts

await fetch('/api/my-resource').then(res => res.json())
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This should be your response.

{
  "items": []
}
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We are almost done. msw is not recommended to be used in production. We have to do some changes to workspace.json so this service worker will be included only in development mode.

Find this location in workspace.json

/projects/your-app-name/architect/build/configurations/production
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Duplicate assets array from /projects/your-app-name/architect/build/options/assets and exclude mockServiceWorker.js file

{
  "projects": {
    "your-app-name": {
      "architect": {
        "build": {
          "configurations": {
            "production": {
              "assets": [
                "apps/your-app-name/src/favicon.ico",
                "apps/your-app-name/src/assets"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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Last thing we have to do, is to exclude mocks.ts file from production.

Create a new empty file mocks.prod.ts, and in production this empty file will replace mocks.ts using fileReplacements option

Find in workspace.json, array fileReplacements located at

/projects/your-app-name/architect/build/configurations/production/fileReplacements
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And add a new replacement for our files.

{
  "projects": {
    "your-app-name": {
      "architect": {
        "build": {
          "configurations": {
            "production": {
              "fileReplacements": [
                {
                  "replace": "apps/your-app-name/src/environments/environment.ts",
                  "with": "apps/your-app-name/src/environments/environment.prod.ts"
                },
                {
                  "replace": "apps/your-app-name/src/mocks.ts",
                  "with": "apps/your-app-name/src/mocks.prod.ts"
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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We are done. Enjoy your monorepo setup.

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Naresh Bhatia •

Very useful article @iamandrewluca . I was able to get my Nx app running with MSW without any issues. Also got Jest to recognize MSW.

However, having trouble with Storybook. It seems to find the handlers but has trouble loading mockServiceWorker.js. Here's the error message:

MSW Error

Any idea what could be going wrong? Here's my repo. yarn storybook:app to start storybook, then try CartView or CatalogView. You will see "Network Error".

TIA.

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Andrei L •

When your run storybook, it starts standalone without app/lib configuration even if is run through nx.
Your current configuration is specifically for react-test-shop.
You will need to configure msw separately for storybook I think. Take a look at this addon, maybe it will help

storybook.js.org/addons/msw-storyb...

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Naresh Bhatia •

Thanks for your response, Andrew. I will take a look. Without Nx in the picture, I have never had to do anything more than starting MSW from .storybook/preview.tsx. For example, in this repo I have the same app working with CRA and Storybook and everything works just fine!!!

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