webservice-simulator

Webservice-simulator is simple use module, by which you can build up your backend webservice quickly without any help from the backend team/developer.

Story

As a front-end developer, have you ever had the experience of asking back-end developer to provide a worked web-service even a mock, just for not blocking your task. But they ignore your request?

That's why i wrote the webservice-simulator.

Installation

npm install webservice-simulator --save-dev

Usage

var path = require('path');
var Simulator = require('webservice-simulator');
 
new Simulator({
    port: 9900,
    routerDir: path.resolve(__dirname, 'routers')
}).start();

By doing as above, you've launched an http server:

• Listening on 9900
• Serve route configurations from path.resolve(__dirname, 'routers')

API

Simulator(options)

options

Type: Object

Options to pass to new Simulator

options.port

Type: Number

Default: 3000

The port of the server which you want to listen.

options.routerDir

Type: String

Default: ./routers

The route configurations directory from where webservice-simulator read config files and configure the server.

How to write route configuration file

Play with example

Clone webservice-simulator

git clone [e-mail]:leftstick/webservice-simulator.git

install dependencies

cd webservice-simulator
npm install

you may want to use a more efficient by sero-cli

launch example

example/example.js

play

Now, you have the simulator setup. which provides following apis:

• /hello, for get http method
• /askfordata, for websocket interreaction
• /2.jpg, to access the static file

Make your client send those request. And see the response.

LICENSE

MIT License