@mswjs/http-middleware

@mswjs/http-middleware

Spawn an Express server from your Mock Service Worker request handlers or apply them to an existing server using a middleware.

When to use this?

You should always prefer Mock Service Worker for API mocking because it can meet most of your requirements without having to spawn and maintain an actual HTTP server. Please refer to the Getting started tutorial to integrate next-generation API mocking into your application.

There are, however, use cases when this extension can be applicable:

• If you wish to curl your mock definitions locally;
• When prototyping a Node.js backend implementation;
• When integrating API mocking in a complex application architecture (i.e. for dockerized applications).

Getting started

Install

$ npm install @mswjs/http-middleware

Declare request handlers

// src/mocks/handlers.js
import { rest, graphql } from 'msw'

export const handlers = [
  rest.post('/user', (req, res, ctx) => {
    return res(ctx.json({ firstName: 'John' }))
  }),
  graphql.query('GetUser', (req, res, ctx) => {
    return res(
      ctx.data({
        user: {
          firstName: 'John',
        },
      }),
    )
  }),
]

Learn more about writing request handlers.

Integrate

A. Spawn a standalone server

import { createServer } from '@mswjs/http-middleware'
import { handlers } from './handlers'

const httpServer = createServer(...handlers)

httpServer.listen(9090)

B. Apply as a middleware

import { createMiddleware } from '@mswjs/http-middleware'
import app from './app'
import { handlers } from './handlers'

app.use(createMiddleware(...handlers))

API

createServer(...handlers: RequestHandler[])

Establishes a standalone Express server that uses the given request handlers to process all incoming requests.

import { rest } from 'msw'
import { createServer } from '@mswjs/http-middleware'

const httpServer = createServer(
  rest.get('/user', (req, res, ctx) => {
    return res(ctx.json({ firstName: 'John' }))
  }),
)

httpServer.listen(9090)

Making a GET http://localhost:9090/user request returns the following response:

200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "firstName": "John"
}

createMiddleware(...handlers: RequestHandler[])

Creates an Express middleware function that uses the given request handlers to process all incoming requests.

import { rest } from 'msw'
import { createMiddleware } from '@mswjs/http-middleware'

const app = express()

app.use(
  createMiddleware(
    rest.get('/user', (req, res, ctx) => {
      return res(ctx.json({ firstName: 'John' }))
    }),
  ),
)

app.use(9090)

Mentions

• David Idol, original implementation.