Speed up your application development with Mockoon
We’ve all went through the painful moment where we have to fix something in our application. You may not be able to directly test the issue in production server so you run your application in dev server. But the dev server might be down or behind the production server. Also, you have to ask for test login credentials which will cause too much delay which will make you bored and uninterested to fix the bug.
What if there was a way to run a local server in your PC and directly get to fixing the bug. Well, there is. Mockoon to the rescue. Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock REST API servers. No remote deployment, no account required, free, open source and cross-platform.
Now, after you’ve installed this all you’ve gotta do it setup an environment which mimics your server by adding required endpoints and possible responses. You might feel like it’s a hectic job but once you’ve set this your development will be so smooth and easy. So let’s get to it.
Open Mockoon application and create a new environment.
Save it in a preferred location.
Select the settings tab and check on which port the server is going to run. For me it’s showing 3000.
Now let’s add a response which will be shown when we’ll enter the http://localhost:3000 in browser.
After this, click the play button and open http://localhost:3000 in your browser. It will show something like this:
That’s it. Now let’s create demo restful api for login. We are going to return a JSON response. For instance on successful login, server might return us with a message with status code 200 that login was successful.
Login is a POST request as we have to send username and password so we wont’t get anything when we enter http://localhost:3000/login in browser. So, let’s test it using Postman.
Here, we see that we get the response we wrote in Mockoon. We get the status 200 OK. We might want to test failure case also. We can add failure responses in Mockoon and set it as the response. Let’s do it also.
Click on + sign. You’ll be presented with list of status codes. Choose a status code of your preference and add appropriate response.
After adding response make the response default by clicking on the pointed icon.
Now let’s make request via Postman and we’ll get:
That’s it folks. This is how we can use Mockoon to mock Restful APIs and speed up our application development and reduce our dependency on dev server. Don’t forget to clap this article if you liked it.
🎉 Happy Coding!!! 🎉
