Fake or Mock an API with JSON Server

JSON Server is an easy and quick-to-set-up module that you can use to fake or mock an API. You can find the basics in the documentation, and many articles regurgitate the same info. In this post, though, I intend to cover a few of the more complex things you can do with JSON Server.

JSON to XML with AngularJS in Preparation for InDesign

In a recent project, I wanted to use Google Sheets as a content management system: the source for a print layout and a website. I wanted the content to reside in a single, easily editable location. In order to achieve that outcome, InDesign requires the data in an XML file. But first, I had to […]

A Tiny Toolbox for Spelunking through JSON

I rely heavily on local instances of a web or mobile application’s API during development. Since I also need to speak fluently with my data on live instances of the API, including both test and production, I’ve found that I often need to work with structured JSON data at the terminal rather than a Javascript-native […]

Dynamic Binding in Ember.js Using Observers

I’m currently working on an Ember.js web application that is a basic CRUD app with a twist — we don’t know all of the form fields or model attributes ahead of time, but rely on a JSON document to specify the names and types of attributes for which we need to render form controls. This […]

Handling JSON from the Command Line with Jq

In the battle of data formats, the two heavyweights are XML and JSON. Of late, JSON seems to be winning, in large part because most languages natively support JSON’s chosen data structures, but there’s one arena where JSON hasn’t made much of a showing: the command line. The command line provides a lot of programs […]

Conversing JSON with Qt and Ruby

I recently had a need to create a command processor in Qt, using C++ only, on a resource-limited system. I decided to use JSON rather than implement a fully-custom protocol. Rather than pulling a 3rd party library into my Qt application, I ran across a handy overview from the QT Wiki demonstrating how to use QScriptEngine […]

Rails Routes in Javascript with js-routes

One thing that has annoyed me historically is hitting our Rails routes from Javascript. I’ve either sent the route down with other JSON data or simply typed the right string into the Javascript code. Both solutions work but I was never wild about them. Now we’ve been using the js-routes library for a couple of […]

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