During local development it's very useful to mock out data returned by some endpoint that you rely on. Very quickly this can get painful to manage as you find yourself dancing between lots of git stashes for different sets of mocked data.

DummyProxy is a extremely simple server that you run in front of your real endpoint that will return mocked data for endpoints of your choosing. The rest gets passed through to your endpoint as it normally would.

npm install dummy-proxy

const DumbProxy = require("dummy-proxy");
prox = new DumbProxy("http://127.0.0.1:3001", "http://127.0.0.1:3000");
prox.addRoute("/simple", {}, () => {
  return {
    email: "[email protected]",
    firstname: "proxy",
    lastname: "McProxington",
    password: "iamtheworstpasswordever"
  };
});
prox.start();

See example.js for a less trivial example.

This is especially useful with a fantastic dummy data generator like casual, and an arg parser like minimist.

This is not a fully featured proxy. It's meant to be as simple as possible. It purposely does not support:

• HTTPS
• Real transparency via SNI