I Love APIs 2015: Apigee and Node.js Building Mock Backends Fast

Building Mocks with Apigee and Node.js !Saulius Zukauskas – Apigee Principal Architect

Who am I?

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Technical Architect - Apigee Professional Services •  Designing and building API platforms. •  Open source and sharing experience is good!

What we are going to talk about?


Misbehaving backend systems

Your new API project…


•  You are asked to develop a new API •  Its great, all front end teams are waiting! •  You use Apigee, so it will be quick & easy



Apigee

New API



Apigee

New API Backend Monster


What are these Backend Monsters?


While you are developing APIs…

Why backend systems misbehave?


• Still under development • No capacity • Network connections in dev or test • No consistent data in dev or test

Solution


We can mock backend systems! Solution?

Solution – use backend mocks


Apigee

New API Backend Monster

amock


•  Hardcode XML policies •  Use Swagger & a127 •  Use Node.js

How do you build backend mocks in Apigee?


You can run Node.js apps in Apigee!

+ = FRIENDS


We have open sourced a framework

amock framework


What is amock framework?


• Apigee ready mock API • Based on Node.js • Serves mock responses from files

• Open source

Demo


Demo time!

Why use amock?


•  Deploy to Apigee and forget

•  Copy & Paste 1000s of mock responses

•  Open source!


Download & try yourself! github.com/sauliuz/amock

Ping me with questions twitter.com/sauliuz

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I Love APIs 2015: Apigee and Node.js Building Mock Backends Fast

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