# API mock (apimock-rs)
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## 🪄 Mock APIs easily — no setup stress, just JSON and go
If you’re building or testing APIs, this tool makes mocking painless. You don’t need to write any config files — just use folders and JSON. It’s super fast, efficient, and flexible when you need it to be.
- 🎈 No config needed to get started
- 🥷 Fast to launch, light on memory, out of your way
- 🧩 Moreover, advanced matching and custom scripting supported
It’s rebuilt from the ground up in version 4. Designed to help developers of all levels.
### Getting started
```sh
# install
npm install -D apimock-rs
# and go
npx apimock
```
```sh
# just use folders and JSON
mkdir -p api/v1/
echo '{"hello": "world"}' > api/v1/hello.json
npx apimock
# response
curl http://localhost:3001/api/v1/hello
# --> {"hello":"world"}
```
```sh
# also, there's room to tweak things later
npx apimock --init
```
### 📖 Documentation
For more details, **🧭 check out [the docs](https://apimokka.github.io/apimock-rs/)**.
### 💻️ GUI wrapper (development in progress)
[apimokka](https://github.com/apimokka/apimokka), featherlight GUI bundle, will be also available.
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## 🛠️ App overhaul announcement
### ⚠️ v4, our new major version, was released. Compatibility Note
v4 is a complete rewrite, breaking compatibility with v3. A direct migration isn't supported; please opt to continue with v3 or start fresh with v4. V4's streamlined file-based and rule-based architecture aims to make new response configurations less burdensome.
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## Open-source, with care
This project is lovingly built and maintained by volunteers.
We hope it helps streamline your API development.
Please understand that the project has its own direction — while we welcome feedback, it might not fit every edge case 🌱
## Acknowledgements
Depends on [tokio](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio) / [hyper](https://hyper.rs/) / [toml](https://github.com/toml-rs/toml) / [serde](https://serde.rs/) / [serde_json](https://github.com/serde-rs/json) / [json5](https://github.com/callum-oakley/json5-rs) / [console](https://github.com/console-rs/console) / [rhai](https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai). In addition, [mdbook](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) (as to workflows).