grunt-interfake

0.1.0 • Public • Published

grunt-interfake

Starting an interfake server with grunt.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.4

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-interfake --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-interfake');

The "interfake" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named interfake to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  interfake: {
    fixture1: {
      options: {
        port: 9000,                         // default: 3000
        endpoints: [{                       // endpoints
          "request": {
            "url": "/whattimeisit",
            "method": "get"
          },
          "response": {
            "code": 200,
            "body": {
              "theTime": "Adventure Time!",
              "starring": [
                "Finn",
                "Jake"
              ],
              "location": "ooo"
            }
          }
        }]
      },
    },
    fixture2: {
      options: {
        port: 9000,                         // default: 3000
      },
      src: ['endpoints.json']               // has to be a JSON file
    },
  },
});

Options

options.port

Type: Integer Default value: 9000

The port that the interfake server should be started at.

options.endpoints

Type: Object Default value: see example endpoints

Usage example as fake backend server

In this example, interfake will be used as a backend server in a test setup. A proxy will forward all requests matching a regex pattern to the interfake server.

var httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
 
var proxy = new httpProxy.RoutingProxy();
 
// forward requests to fake backend
var proxyFunction = function (req, res, next) {
  var match = req.url.match(/.*\/some-part-of-my-url\/.*/);
  if (match) {
    proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 9000
    });
  } else {
    next();
  }
};
 
grunt.initConfig({
 
  // fake backend
  interfake: {
    options: {
      port: 9000
    },
    src: ['endpoints.json'],
  },
 
  // web server for test environment
  connect: {
    options: {
      port: 8080,
      hostname: 'localhost'
    },
    test: {
      options: {
        middleware: function (connect) {
          return [
            proxyFunction,
            mountFolder(connect, 'static')
          ];
        }
      }
    }
  },
 
  // starts the interfake server and a web server
  concurrent: {
    testWithInterfake: [
      'interfake',
      'connect:test:keepalive'
    ]
  },
});
 
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-interfake');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-connect');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-concurrent');
 
grunt.registerTask('integrate', ['concurrent:testWithInterfake']);

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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