paratron/sidekickserver

Debug, track, intercept and change your apps API requests on the fly

Sidekick Server

Heads up, this project is in a very early development phase

Debug, track, intercept and change your apps API requests on the fly

Sidekick Server can be installed into your application directory and works as a development and debugging tool for your web applications API.

It captures HTTP/s requests locally and forwards them to your real API. Every request and every response will be passed to a middleware chain where you can track, debug, intercept and change everything at your wish.

Use cases are plenty:

• Simulate "bad responses", eg. status 404, 500
• Simulate timeouts (server is down)
• Simulate missing data fields
• Work with future data structure before it is even implemented in the API

Ideas I have and want to add in the future:

• "Record" API responses in order to be able to go offline
• Measure the speed of your API responses to detect bottlenecks
• Measure the size of your requests and responses for performance optimization
• Provide a UI to observe your apps data flow and create, add and remove middlewares on the fly
• Create typescript types by looking at the API requests and responses
• Provide interfaces for tools like cypress for integration test scenarios