The Best Tool To Mockup an API For Frontend Developers

Waiting for an API? No more! With Mockoon you can define the API like you’d buy a burger online and actually send requests against it. With no code, no SaaS, in a matter of minutes!

Welcome to the next episode of the series, where I share awesome tools to boost your effectivity in frontend development.

Well, it’s not quite a series, but I write about it from time to time, and since I have quite an experience with frontend development, I know a thing or two.

If it comes to apps I’ve built to boost productivity the list is growing with every year:

• AI Responder — the first browser extension that lets you answer any message, slack etc. with an AI. My latest creation
• Hinty — dynamic hints in VSCode (it’s like Copilot, but you write your own hints for yourself) over 1000 downloads
• Generator of branch name from Azure DevOps task
• Generator of branch name and ticket name from Shortcut task
• Generator of branch name and ticket from JIRA task
• Breaker — the validator of API responses
• Shortcut-Git-CLI — normally you’d have to create a branch for a new ticket. This command line tool abstracts it, so you switch between Shortcut tasks, and branches are created/switched in the background.

But also I share third party tools like LM Studio & Continue, a private alternative to Copilot and ChatGPT, or Codium — an AI to write unit tests.

I like to test, and build productivity tools, because it helps me write better software, rule out repetitive, but error prone parts of the job, and focus on the most important things.

Today I’ll tell you about my latest finding — Moockoon, that shares two values I like the most about software — it’s free (with reasonable paid plans) and open source.

Mockoon lets you create a mockup of an API and actually run it as a mockup API server. Compared to other solutions it also doesn’t make you think to switch career path to become an astrophysicist.