endpoint

Super simple mock API endpoints for static JSON data

$ curl -X PUT http://endpoint.example.com/api/endpoint/add -d '{"name": "my-endpoint", "data": {"hello": "world"}}'
{
  "success": true,
  "name": "my-endpoint",
  "data": {
    "hello": "world"
  },
  "statusCode": 200,
  "delay": 0
}

$ curl http://endpoint.example.com/endpoint/my-endpoint
{
  "hello": "world"
}

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Overview

endpoint is a self-hosted microservice for quickly creating configurable mock HTTP endpoints that return static JSON data. It's intended to be a super simple, zero-configuration, zero-server-overhead way of associating some JSON with a URL in order to test webhooks or client libraries during development.

endpoint is especially useful for testing client-side logic when a live production server is either not yet ready or unavailable in a development environment.

Endpoint JSON data is persistently stored on-disk and cached in-memory, completely eliminating the need for any database configuration.

Features

• Associate arbitrary JSON data with any endpoint name
• Specify a custom HTTP response status code
• Specify a custom response delay (e.g. for testing behavior under slow network conditions)

Installation

Locally

$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ npm run start
# A local instance is now available at http://localhost:16540

Production (Apache reverse proxy, with pm2):

First, in the shell:

$ cd /path/to/endpoint
$ npm install
$ NODE_ENV=production npm run build
$ pm2 start index.js

A minimal Apache config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    Alias "/static" "/path/to/endpoint/src/client/static"

    ProxyPass "/static" !

    <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Proxy>

    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:16540/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:16540/
</VirtualHost>

If your production infrastructure makes use of Sentry, you may optionally run the build and start scripts with the environment variables SERVER_SENTRY_DSN and CLIENT_SENTRY_DSN defined either in the shell or saved in .env.