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Mockaton
An HTTP mock server for simulating APIs with minimal setup — ideal for testing difficult to reproduce backend states.
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Overview
With Mockaton, you don’t need to write code for wiring up your mocks. Instead, a given directory is scanned for filenames following a convention similar to the URLs.
For example, for /api/company/123, the filename could be:
my-mocks-dir/api/company/[id].GET.200.json
Dashboard
Quick Start (Docker)
This will spin up Mockaton with the sample directories included in this repo mounted on the container. Mentioned dirs are: mockaton-mocks/ and mockaton-static-mocks/.
git clone https://github.com/ericfortis/mockaton.git --depth 1
cd mockaton
make docker
Dashboard: localhost:2020/mockaton
Test it:
curl localhost:2020/api/user
FAQs
HTTP Mock Server
The npm package mockaton receives a total of 189 weekly downloads. As such, mockaton popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that mockaton demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 01 Apr 2026
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