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Fake REST API For Local Testing Using JSON Server

The document discusses using JSON Server, a library for creating a mock REST API server in a local development environment. It describes installing JSON Server, creating a db.json file with sample data, and starting a server with the json-server command to serve the REST API endpoints determined by the data in db.json.

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Fake REST API For Local Testing Using JSON Server

The document discusses using JSON Server, a library for creating a mock REST API server in a local development environment. It describes installing JSON Server, creating a db.json file with sample data, and starting a server with the json-server command to serve the REST API endpoints determined by the data in db.json.

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Fake REST API for Local Testing using

JSON Server
https://howtodoinjava.com/angular/mock-rest-server/

Learn to JSON server library for creating a mock REST server in the local development
environment and simulating online REST APIs for unit testing purposes. Using the JSON
server, we can produce desired JSON responses in no time. It is very handy to have such
REST APIs mocking capability for quick development time.

1. Install JSON Server

As we are in a Nodejs and Angular development environment, let’s import json-server


dependency.

Install JSON server


npm install -g json-server

Console Output:

C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\json-server -> C:\Users\admin\


AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\json-server\bin\index.js
+ [email protected]
added 229 packages from 130 contributors in 24.844s
2. Create a JSON File to Serve API Responses

The best thing about this approach is that you are not forced to consume any dummy meaning
less data. Rather you can create JSON data you want to consume and put it in a
file 'db.json' and start serving it.

db.json
{
"employees": [
{ "id": 1, "name": "Lokesh", "status": "active" },
{ "id": 2, "name": "Andy", "status": "Inactive" },
{ "id": 3, "name": "Brian", "status": "active" },
{ "id": 4, "name": "Charles", "status": "Inactive" }
]
}

And start serving the above db.json file with a simple command. Navigate to the directory
where you placed the db.json and run the following command.

json-server --watch db.json

Now test the REST API in the browser using the command
'http://localhost:3000/employees'.
JSON server running

Please note that REST endpoints served from JSON server are determined by data nodes in
db.json. It’s so much easy and powerful.

Drop me your questions in the comments section.

Happy Learning !!

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