News, tutorials, and insights about frontend development, API mocking, and chaos engineering.
Learn how to use conditional responses in Mimicry to return different mock data based on a query param, header, or body field, so you can test admin, member, and suspended states without a backend.
Learn how to connect Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf to Mimicry's MCP server and use AI to create, manage, and iterate on mock APIs — without opening a browser.
A step-by-step walkthrough: build a multi-resource e-commerce mock API with categories, products, users, orders, and order items — filtering, sorting, pagination, nested routes, embedding, and Chaos Mode.
An honest comparison between json-server and a hosted mock REST API like Mimicry — setup costs, sharing, scaling beyond one developer, where each tool quietly breaks, and a decision flow that avoids mid-project switches.
Wire a React data layer to a mock REST API: query keys, mutations, query invalidation, dependent queries, retry strategies, and the bugs that only appear once the mock is slow enough to be honest.
How to use Chaos Mode and Field Chaos in Mimicry to inject realistic failures, dirty payloads and slow networks into your mocks, and find UI bugs before your users do.
Learn how to mock a REST API for frontend development in React or Next.js, test realistic UI states, and keep shipping before the backend is ready.
Static JSON mocks are useful at first, but they are not enough for real UI testing. Learn why realistic mock APIs lead to better frontend quality.
Learn how to test loading, empty, error, and success states with a mock API so your frontend behaves correctly before the backend is ready.