fixture-middleware

Motivation

Sometimes I want to mock certain paths of my API made with Express. Therefore, I created fixture-middleware which will use fixture data (mock) for any URL that matches a file inside the configured fixture directory.

Installation

npm install fixture-middleware --save-dev

yarn add fixture-middleware --dev

Usage

const path = require('path')
const express = require('express')
const fixtureMiddleware = require('fixture-middleware')

const app = express()
const fixtureDirectory = path.resolve(__dirname, './fixtures')

app.use(fixtureMiddleware(fixtureDirectory))

Matching URLs with fixture files

All URLs are normalized (all / will be replaced by --) and if a Accept headers is present it will be used to determine the file extension, otherwise the first matching file will be returned.

Example

Suppose we have the following files in the configured fixture directory:

`-- fixtures
    |-- users.json
    |-- users.html
    `-- users--active.json

The following request will match those files as follows

Request	Response
URL: /users Headers: (no accept header)	File: users.html
URL: /users Headers: accept=application.json	File: users.json
URL: /users Headers: accept=application.html	File: users.html
URL: /users/active Headers: (no accept header)	File: users--active.json
URL: /users/active Headers: accept=application.json	File: users--active.json

Important: Any unmatched request will be delegated to the next middleware.

Development

1. Clone and fork this repo.
2. Install dependencies: yarn or npm install.
3. Run tests.
4. Prepare a pull request.

Test

• yarn test – to run all tests.
• yarn test -- --watch – to run all tests in watch mode.

Publish

1. Bump package version: yarn version --new-version x.x.x -m 'Version %s.'.
2. Publish to NPM registry: npm publish.
3. Push new tag: git push origin --tags.

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Made with :heart: by Rubens Mariuzzo.

MIT license