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by city41 4788 days ago
It's a neat idea but I can't imagine I'd ever actually use this for real testing. Relying on a third party server for your tests can be a problem. We also have thousands of tests that rely on mocked REST responses, setting them up with Mocky would be a ton of work.

If Mocky could be ran onsite and had a nice API for easily generating mock responses, then I think it would be more useful.
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yotsumi 4788 days ago
It's an open source project, created 2 days ago. All is possible, this website is just a proof of concept. And you can fork the project to run it locally.
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city41 4788 days ago
Yeah I realize that. I hope I didn't come across too harsh. It is a good idea, and I'd like to see it grow some more.
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johns 4788 days ago
What do you use for your existing tests? VCR?
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city41 4788 days ago
We've rolled our own system inside Jasmine that mocks out XHR. It's generally in the form of:

    @ajax.whenQuerying('someendpoint').respondWith(someData)
And internal to that system we have some components that understand the overall shape of our data model so someData can be a very small, simple object with just the data the test cares about and the internals flesh out the rest.
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