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Discussion on: Using mocked APIs to increase developer productivity

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PhyberApex

Hey there,

we are confronted with this on a daily basis and we are currently looking for the best solution for us. Right now we are trying out to use Fiddler as a proxy with it's AutoResponder feature which allows us to use any rest client library and implement down to the request. Might do a quick write up later.

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Alexandre • Edited

That looks like a nice alternative. I tend to look for simpler solutions (that explains why I've used json-server).

After writing the article I remembered a better way to mock http requests without depending on axios, that is to basically to mock XMLHttpRequest. This way the application wouldn't know about it and it would not be bounded to axios interceptors.

Would love to read what you're writing on your solution

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Rattanak Chea

What do you mean mock XMLHttpRequest? Can you provide some more context? Like using this library npmjs.com/package/mock-xmlhttprequest for example?

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Alexandre

Yes, that would be one option. Either that or something like PretenderJS does (github.com/pretenderjs/pretender/b...)