Is there a plan to support server side mocking?

[jackjocross]

I came across Mimic while looking for a mocking tool for local development and it looks awesome!

My only issue is my application uses SSR so I would also need to mock the requests made from the server. I see that Mimic is described as "client side mocking" but I was wondering if there is any way to do this currently or if there are plans to support SSR in the future?

[morsdyce]

Hey Jack, SSR is a use case we haven't had time to tackle yet but we do want to support it. Might take a while though as I just went on vacation but I'll add this to my to-do list. Thanks!

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[jackjocross]

Are you looking for contributors? This is a use case I would love to help out with.

[morsdyce]

Of course I am, will love help to build this feature. Will need to think about how we can support node environments as we don't have local storage available to store the mocks. It might be possible using remote mode and having the client open in the browser but I've never tested it on a node environment

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[jackjocross]

Cool! I think remote mode sounds like a good place to start. I'm planning on digging into this more over the weekend so should have a better understanding then.

[morsdyce]

Just an update on this, the latest releases of mimic expose a custom interceptor system where you could implement your own interceptor, so this is now possible to implement.

[danrevah]

@morsdyce No you can't really do that.. bootstrapUI & other functions will throw errors.. unless there's a way to register a custom interceptor before load that I'm missing?

[morsdyce]

hey @danrevah
It's possible to load mimic without any UI at all using only strictly the API layer.
For example we have mimic/remote which communicates requests via web sockets to an external UI client run separately (via a separate package called mimic-remote).

In addition to that you do have the ability to create a custom interceptor to capture request in any manner you'd want. This isn't documented very well currently but you can see how to register it here:
https://github.com/500tech/mimic/blob/master/lib/api/index.js#L29

and an example of what an interceptor usually contains here:
https://github.com/500tech/mimic/blob/master/lib/api/interceptors/web-interceptor.js

As long as you keep the same interface it should work.
If you're interested in helping with this I'd love to talk more and explain how everything works. :)