DEV Community: nphamvn

I built a mock API + frontend deployment platform to unblock frontend development

nphamvn — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:26:11 +0000

Hey folks,

While working on a frontend app, I ran into a common issue: the backend wasn’t ready yet. I needed a way to simulate APIs so I could keep building without being blocked.

That led me to build MycroCloud — a lightweight mock API platform with GitHub-based frontend deployment (something like a simplified AWS API Gateway + Vercel).

🧩 Key features

Supports three types of API responses:

Static: Define static JSON/text responses. Supports Handlebars for dynamic templating based on request parameters.

StaticFile: Serve uploaded files (e.g., JSON, images).

Function: Run custom JavaScript serverless functions (like AWS Lambda-lite).

Other features:

Multiple storage options for data persistence: File, Object, Text, Variable
Request validation to enforce expected input formats
Authentication & Authorization via OpenID Connect
Log viewing & export for debugging and monitoring
GitHub integration for auto-deploying frontend apps on each push

🔗 Try it out
🌐 Service: https://mycrocloud.info/

🧑‍💻 Source code: https://github.com/mycrocloud/mycrocloud

🖼️ Architecture diagram

How does dev.to index data to Algolia (before and after Algolia was added)?

nphamvn — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:49:57 +0000

Hey folks 👋

I’m curious how dev.to handles search with Algolia — especially when it comes to syncing data.

How did you handle indexing all the older content (posts, comments, etc.) that was created before you started using Algolia?

And how is new content kept in sync now? Is there a job, webhook, or some auto-trigger?

Also, if possible — where in the forem repo can I find the code that handles this? Would love to see how it’s implemented.

Trying to figure out the best way to approach this for my own project, and it’d be awesome to learn from how you all did it.

Thanks in advance!

Why web developers do not write a blog site by the language they are working in?

nphamvn — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:59:39 +0000

I see that most of them use other blog engine. I like ASP.NET Core and I want to make a blog by ASP.NET Core. But I do not see very much of tutorial on Google.

Tunnel services that support access Grpc Server (HTTP/2)

nphamvn — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 03:02:55 +0000

I am looking for a tunnel service that allow client to access a Grpc Server via Http/2 protocol. I need to host a C# .NET Grpc Server on my Raspberry Pi, the app will communicate with Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. And the Grpc Client - an ASP.NET Core API is hosted on Azure App Services. Can you give me a suggestion?

How do you use Git and GitHub everyday when working with a team?

nphamvn — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:17:03 +0000

Start from scratch to final, how are you using?
When do you initialize git, commit first commit and so on?