Parrot API mocking

Mocking your API responses like a pro. The Parrot browser extension allows you to mock any asynchronous call you like. Using its network viewer you can monitor all calls being done, and with the ease of just one mouse button click you can start mocking every call you need to be mocked. Works for both old-school XmlHttpRequest and modern Fetch-API calls. Mocking can be as easy as just pasting alternative JSON payloads to be returned by the call, or by doing more complex transformation of responses using JavaScript. Whether or not mocking needs to take place can be decided by comparing the URL with a matching string or regular expression or, if a more fine-grained approach is needed, by inspecting the request using JavaScript.

💡 When to use this extension?

🔸 You are developing a front end that needs to connect to some back end API, but that API has not yet been developed or is down.

🔸 You want to give a live demo but the back end API needed is currently not available or broken.

🔸 You would not only like to test the happy flow, but would also like to see how your front end behaves given any possible alternate scenario or edge case.

🔸 You are experiencing a nasty bug but have no way of reproducing it easily using the real back end system. You would like to tweak the response to check if any unexpected response could be the cause of your issue.