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133: Sam Selikoff - Building Production-Ready SPAs Fast with Mirage.js
In this episode, Adam talks to Sam Selikoff about Mirage.js and how to use it to build production-ready front-end applications, even if your back-end API isn't ready yet.
Topics
- What is Mirage and how does it work?
- What makes Mirage better than a dummy JSON server you run on another port?
- What makes Mirage better than running your actual API locally?
- Using Mirage for actual development, and not just for your test suite
- How Mirage's internal ORM works, and how it can help you mirror your API's behavior more quickly
- Managing the risks of maintaining a complex stub of your real API with Mirage and keeping them in sync
- What's next for Mirage
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