@tkrotoff/stub-server

@tkrotoff/stub-server

Stub/mock server for REST APIs

For each route, decide what will happen: a JSON stub, a piece of JS or redirect to a real server

• Use it with Express, webpack-dev-server, Next.js or the command line
• Support stubs written in JSON, JS, TypeScript, HTML, jpg...
• Can redirect requests to another host thx to node-http-proxy
• No need to restart stub-server if you modify a stub
• The HTTP status code returned is determined from the stub filename: *_200_*.json, *_500_*.html...
• Configurable delays to simulate slow APIs (helps find bugs and possible improvements to your code - add a spinner, disable a submit button...)
• Configurable HTTP headers (useful to change origin and bypass CORS for some APIs)

Usage

npm install --save-dev @tkrotoff/stub-server

Proposed file organization

stubs/routes/my_api1_GET_200_OK.json
             my_api2_GET_200_OK.jpg
             my_api3_POST_400_BadRequest-invalidField.ts
             my_api4_POST_400_BadRequest-invalidField.js
             my_api5_DELETE_500_InternalServerError.html
             my_api7_GET_200_OK.json
             my_api7_POST_200_OK.json
             my_api8_GET.ts
             my_api9_GET.js
             my_api10_GET_200_OK-param1.json
             my_api10_GET_200_OK-param2.json
stubs/config.ts
webpack.config.ts

stubs/config.ts

import path from 'path';
import { StubServerConfig } from '@tkrotoff/stub-server';

const prod = 'https://myapp.com';

const stubsPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'routes');

const config: StubServerConfig = {
  delay: { min: 500, max: 3000 },
  routes: {
    '/my/api1': { GET: `${stubsPath}/my_api1_GET_200_OK.json` },
    '/my/api2': { GET: `${stubsPath}/my_api2_GET_200_OK.jpg` },
    '/my/api3': { POST: `${stubsPath}/my_api3_POST_400_BadRequest-invalidField.ts` },
    '/my/api4': { POST: `${stubsPath}/my_api4_POST_400_BadRequest-invalidField.js` },
    '/my/api5': { DELETE: `${stubsPath}/my_api5_DELETE_500_InternalServerError.html` },
    '/my/api6/:id': { PUT: prod },
    '/my/api7': {
      delay: { min: 1000, max: 1000 },
      GET: `${stubsPath}/my_api7_GET_200_OK.json`,
      POST: {
        delay: { min: 0, max: 0 },
        headers: { origin: 'https://myapp.com' },
        response: `${stubsPath}/my_api7_POST_200_OK.json`
      }
    },
    '/my/api8': { GET: `${stubsPath}/my_api8_GET.ts`},
    '/my/api9': { GET: `${stubsPath}/my_api9_GET.js`},
    '/my/api10/:id': { GET: req => `${stubsPath}/my_api10_GET_200_OK-${req.params.id}.json` }
  }
};

const rootApiPath = 'https://myapp.com/client/:clientApi';
config.routes[`${rootApiPath}/my/api7`] = { GET: `${stubsPath}/my_api7_GET_200_OK.json` };

export default config; // Or "exports.default = config"

Note: stubs/config.ts written in TypeScript instead of JavaScript requires ts-node

webpack.config.ts

Configuration with webpack-dev-server

import { stubServer } from '@tkrotoff/stub-server';

// ...

  devServer: {
    // ...

    // webpack 5
    onBeforeSetupMiddleware: ({ app }) => {
      const configPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'stubs', 'config');
      stubServer(configPath, app);
    }

    // webpack 4
    before: app => {
      const configPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'stubs', 'config');
      stubServer(configPath, app);
    }

    // ...
  },

// ...

stubs/routes/my_api1_GET_200_OK.json

{
  "foo": "bar"
}

stubs/routes/my_api3_POST_400_BadRequest-invalidField.ts

export default {
  error: 'Invalid field'
};

stubs/routes/my_api4_POST_400_BadRequest-invalidField.js

module.exports = {
  error: 'Invalid field'
};

stubs/routes/my_api8_GET.ts

import express from 'express';

export default function stub(req: express.Request, res: express.Response) {
  res.send('Hello, World!');
}

stubs/routes/my_api9_GET.js

module.exports = (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello, World!');
};

Command line

Usage: stub-server [options] <config>

Arguments:
  config         path to the config file

Options:
  --port <port>  stub server port (default: "12345")
  --no-delay     ignore any delay specified in the config
  -h, --help     display help for command

Next.js

// stubServer.js

const { stubServer } = require('@tkrotoff/stub-server');
const cors = require('cors');
const express = require('express');
const next = require('next');
const Log = require('next/dist/build/output/log');
const path = require('path');

const app = next({ dev: process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' });
const handle = app.getRequestHandler();

const configPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'stubs', 'config');
const port = 3000;

app.prepare().then(() => {
  const server = express();
  server.use(express.json());
  server.use(cors());

  stubServer(configPath, server);

  server.all('*', (req, res) => handle(req, res));

  server.listen(port, () => {
    // https://github.com/zeit/next.js/blob/v9.3.1/packages/next/build/output/store.ts#L85-L88
    Log.ready(`ready on port ${port}`);
  });
});

// package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "node stubServer.js", // Instead of "next dev"
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "next start"
  }
}

Errors

If an error occurs (missing stub or route) while stub-server is processing a request, the error is returned in the response with status 500 (Internal Server Error) and is also displayed in the console.