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Smocker: Smocker is a simple and efficient HTTP mock server and proxy
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Smocker is a simple and efficient HTTP mock server and proxy
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Smocker is a simple and efficient HTTP mock server and proxy
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesHey guys :)
My colleague and I just released Smocker[1][2], a mock server we use at our company to write functional tests of our microservices.
Smocker is tailored for our main use-case: a microservice environment.
After a few months of use in production, we’re pretty confident in its stability and proud of its main features:
- Mock declaration as code in YAML instead of JSON. It’s very handy to declare JSON payloads because you don’t need to escape anything,
- Great user interface, extremely useful to figure out what’s going on at any point, in the call history,
- Dynamic responses system, to compute mock responses dynamically using templates or Lua,
- Session system, to be able to import and export the current history and mock state, a very useful debugging feature.
- Proxy feature, when some calls don’t need to be mocked but simply for
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warded,
- Nice documentation[1], we tried to polish it as much as possible,
- Good overall performances, we used other solutions before and sometimes had latency or crash issues from the mock server.
We hope it can be useful to others!
[1]: https://smocker.dev/
[2]: https://github.com/Thiht/smocker
[3]: https://www.mock-server.com/
What I love about Makefiles is that they just use the CLI tools. Full build tools like Gradle or Bazel require installing specific plugins and learning a new inferior syntax, making them a nightmare to use if you need to use a non implemented feature of the underlying tool. The biggest pain point is also that they don't even bother to print the actual command being executed!
I recently used make in a side project[1] to implement a "full" continuous delivery pipeline and it really was refreshing, despite the syntactic quirks.
[1]: https://github.com/Thiht/smocker/blob/master/Makefile
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