Web developers struggle to mock APIs reliably during local development
Frontend and AWS Amplify developers need local REST APIs and predictable API responses while building and testing apps. The evidence describes gaps in Amplify’s REST workflow, configuration that still points to the cloud, and mocking tools that do not fit Next.js server component tests. Local routing and HTTPS setup appears as an adjacent local-development pain, but is not the core problem.
For frontend and AWS Amplify developers. Mentioned from Feb 2020 to Oct 2023 on GitHub and Hacker News.
5 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 6.8/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I'm currently able to run the express server locally via amplify function invoke, but automatically changing aws-exports.js and hot reloading the express server on code change does not happen through this method
Would be great to quickly run amplify mock api when you have a basic rest api with express. I don't have a GraphQL backend so mock doesn't work
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