Mockoon. How to create your local API server in 2 minutes

Artem Diashkin
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5 min readJul 17, 2021

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Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock API servers locally.
No remote deployment, no account required, free, open source and cross-platform.

What will be covered in this article

  • Why should you use Mockoon
  • Starting your local server
  • An array of thousands of users
  • 8000 users with image URL
  • Query params
  • If/else response
  • Using Rules
  • Logs

Why should you use Mockoon

What if you need to mock a specific API that is not available at the moment?

Or maybe you need to create a BE server while developing a front-end page?

Or maybe you started working on Apollo server and you need your custom back-end?

There could be dozens of different reasons but believe me, Mockoon will be your best friend if you are a developer.

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