Mockoon. How to create your local API server in 2 minutes
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5 min readJul 17, 2021
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.