Practical guides to API testing, mock APIs, and building apps without writing a backend.
Integration tests that call real third party APIs break for reasons that have nothing to do with your code: the API is slow, rate limits your runner, changes its data, or is down. A mock API fixes that, but "mock API"...
You've built a Next.js prototype and it needs to remember things: tasks, sign ups, feedback, whatever the app is about. You don't want to provision a database, write migrations or run a server just to find out whether...
"I need to store some JSON" can mean very different things. Settings for one user's browser. A list your whole team edits. Payloads a backend processes later. The right home depends on three questions: 1. Who needs to...
Ask an AI assistant to build you an app and it writes the code quickly. The hard part comes next: where does the data live? Most assistants will tell you to set up a database, create an account somewhere and paste in ...
Ask a coding agent to build you an app and it will happily write the frontend. Then it stops and asks where the data should live. Set up a database? Write a server? Sign up for something and paste in a key? Now it doe...