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0 pointstomhallett3y ago0 comments

I have nothing todo with Retool, but I'm curious about the problem you are trying to solve. What do you want to consume the mock api?

a) Is this for rapid prototypes? (web? mobile?) b) Do you have a microservice architecture and you want to mock out one of the services? (dev? ci?) c) something else?

Lets say the generator looks at your schema and generates an api, how much would you want to tweak/customize that api?

Is the mock api returning data based on what's in the database? If so, can the mock api mutate data in the database?

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no_wizard3y ago· 1 in thread

Cloud services have a real problem, they don't all have nice emulators for data or seeding. I'd love to setup a sandboxed test database automatically, and seed it with random data based on that schema (and perhaps some heuristics, like intentionally breaking some entries or random incomplete data sets)

and I'd like do it without incurring the cost of maintaining this fully in house. I know in some cases, like with GraphQL, I can do this somewhat easy if I use a 3rd party service, I know with something like AppSync there is some potential to run it locally via an emulator, but honesty the DX story around Cloud services is kind of crappy, and this would go a long way in solving that story.

Hansenq3y ago

Interesting...would it be accurate to say that the issue you're facing is being able to generate and access mock data for testing purposes?

I'm working on building something in this space. Would love to chat with you about your use case; mind emailing me at hq@ withcodex.com? Thanks!

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