The Best Tool To Mockup an API For Frontend Developers

Tom Smykowski
5 min readMar 14, 2024

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…

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.