Purpose

You are a smart and proactive Frontend engineer 🤓, you complete your UI components very quickly, so that the APIs is still not ready for client. You don't have correct data to feed the UI components. Finally, You are blocked until the APIs were completed by Backend Engineers. fakey-json will resolve the api tasks blocking between Frontend and Backend engineers simply and easily. fakey-json is a utility for mocking json data of response in client and no need any mock server.

• Assign custom JSON pattern for response: You can pass any custom JSON structure to be the default value.
• Assign the response data on any level in JSON: You can use dot-notation to assign the response data position so quickly.
• Fancy high order function pattern implementation: fakey-json base on high order function pattern and return a function as a result that allow you to create new function that can be used as templates.
• Choose common format for the value of response property: fakey-json build-in the useful and common formats for response property value.

Installation

npm install fakey-json

How to use

For simple JSON

Below response is your expectation:

{
    data: [{
        name: "Name_1",
        id: "19"
    },{
        name: "Name_2",
        id: "20"
    },{
        name: "Name_3",
        id: "21"
    }]
}

fakey-json can help you like:

import fakeyJSON from 'fakey-json'

const base = {data: []}
const makeMock = fakeyJSON(base, 'data')
const responseData = makeMock(3, (index) => 
    ({
        name: `Name_${index}`,
        id  : `${18 + index}`,
    })
)
// responseData will be your expectation

More complex JSON and use common format in response property value

Below response is your expectation and you would like to make 1000 items in payload:

{
    data: {
        message: "success",
        payload: [
            {
                name: "Name_1",
                createDate: '2017-01-01',
                id: "1",
                type: "Major"
            },{
                name: "Name_2",
                createDate: '2018-01-10',
                id: "2",
                type: "Mini"
            },
            
            ...
            
            {
                name: "Name_1000",
                createDate: '2017-08-31',
                id: "1000",
                type: "Major"
            }
        ]
    }
}

fakey-json can help you generate 1000 complex format easily:

import fakeyJSON from 'fakey-json'

const base = {
    message: "success",
    data: {
        payload: []
    }
}
const makeMock = fakeyJSON(base, 'data.payload')
const responseData = makeMock(1000, (index, makePropValue) =>{
    return {
        name      : `Name_${index}`,
        id        : `${index}`,
        createDate: makePropValue('date', {startYear: 2017, endYear: 2018}),
        type      : makePropValue('from-list', {list: ['Major', 'Mini', 'Minor']})
    }
})
// responseData will be your expectation