Mockit
Dev tools
api mocking
SHOW HN2019
158points
25comments
#253of 2,195 in 2019
Top 12%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy to get running and useful UI
From 3 comments
Really easy to get things up and running. Love the chaos monkey feature!
mrjasongorman on HNI've been looking for a tool like this most recently. The criteria where * no java * lightweight docker implementation * self hosted Funny how a perfect solution randomly pops up…
dobecker on HNSeems like a more featureful version of something I wrote a long while ago to ease testing, fakettp: github.com/sethgrid/fakettp. Mine requires a json config and can act as a…
sethammons on HN
Chaos monkey feature liked
From 1 comment
Really easy to get things up and running. Love the chaos monkey feature!
mrjasongorman on HN
Objections
Chaos monkey throws stack trace on every request, too aggressive
From 2 comments
The chaos monky is a bit agressive, throwing a stack trace on every request. :) I think it's a bug with it's implementation.
kissgyorgy on HNPerhaps a set of sliders for each type of issue which define how often they might appear. E.G I don't care about 500s right now but would like 50% of the requests to be slow.
philjackson on HN
GUI less useful for automated tests
From 1 comment
I guess this would be somewhat comparable to WireMock? http://wiremock.org/ The GUI looks pretty, but I'm not sure how useful that is in practice for automated tests at least.
zokier on HN
Requests
Support OpenAPI v2 and v3 spec import
From 2 comments
Any plans to build from an OpenAPI Spec descriptor file? Ideally v3
simonhamp on HNTools looks great! I've added an issue here for openapi: https://github.com/boyney123/mockit/issues/5 . I have quite a few specifications in openapi v2 (swagger). It'd be helpful…
Shelnutt2 on HN
Configurable chaos monkey settings such as sliders
From 1 comment
Perhaps a set of sliders for each type of issue which define how often they might appear. E.G I don't care about 500s right now but would like 50% of the requests to be slow.
philjackson on HN
GraphQL support
From 1 comment
Something like this would be cool, and probably significantly harder to implement, for GraphQL.
vlozko on HN
Alternatives named
WireMock
From 1 comment
I guess this would be somewhat comparable to WireMock? http://wiremock.org/ The GUI looks pretty, but I'm not sure how useful that is in practice for automated tests at least.
zokier on HN
Mountebank
From 1 comment
Another alternative that I have had good experience with is Mountebank - http://www.mbtest.org/ It doesn't have a nice GUI like this, but it is extremely flexible in the…
mattherman on HN
Mockoon
From 1 comment
Let me just plug https://mockoon.com/
cabraca on HN
Hoverfly
From 1 comment
It touched my heart :( I worked more than one year on a service virtualization project in my previous job with 6-7 people and it has never been used by a real customer because of…
erkanerol on HN
duckrails
From 1 comment
A similar tool that stumbled upon recently is duckrails: https://github.com/iridakos/duckrails It's got some nice features like building dynamic mocks with JavaScript or Ruby,…
geospeck on HN
Beeceptor
From 1 comment
Http://beeceptor.com is another hosted one. And it gives named endpoints for drop-in replacement for API base url.
ankit84 on HN