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How to Mock an API in ONE minute

Ismail Kamil on November 18, 2022

Front-end developers usually meet this problem. The API is designed, but it's not been implemented yet. I need to make some fake data for my interf...
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Ankit Jain • Edited

APIDog is a very procedural way to create a mock API. The main intention of the mock is to set up quickly and be ready to be consumed right there. I see tools like Beeceptor or Mockoon are designed for the same experience, where you can create APIs in a few setups. E.g. Beeceptor doesn't even require you to signup first. Just upload the payload and it's working.

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Akihiko Takagi

Powerful. Front-end engineers should like it.

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Ismail Kamil

Yeah I believe so.

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Marco Brandizi

It's really interesting, despite the fact things won't be so smooth in reality: an initial specification of how the API responses should look like is likely to change while it is developed for real. But the approach might be useful in having an early and clear-enough idea of what the API should return. Having to make a few changes later, either client or server side, is still better than having to redefine the API completely because important requirements were overseen.

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Ismail Kamil

Thanks for the reply. I wrote a new article to answer this question, in which I used your sentence.😁

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Jbee - codehooks.io

Hi, another approach is to use serverless API where you actually create the real API without the hassle of a server. And run your code against different backend spaces, i.e. mock/dev/stage/production.

codehooks.io/blog/how-to-quickly-c...

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RexcelWang

Looks great!

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Arun Kumar Govindappa

But sure its not a one minute thing

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david miles

sure indeed it really help

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Arif Patel Dubai Preston UK

Thank You For The Information

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Steve Griffith

Do you work for APIDog?

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Juan Manuel Bello

Great, thanks for sharing

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vaibhav

we can also use Faux API platform, which gives us a lot of space to store values in APis and access it anytime we want, without any limits

faux-api.com/

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Ricardo Fontana

This tool is great for paid services and offline API, but in real scenarios the backend generates de Open API specification, if you don't have the API you don't have the specification.

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Ismail Kamil

In many companies backend developers design API first. So API specification comes out before API is implemented.

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Alex Elziere

great

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