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Using NodeJS for Mock Services

There are a few scenarios where you may need a mock service in place until you get your own back-end services integrated. For example, a mock authentication server for round trip authentication.

Prerequisites for running NodeJS

  • NodeJS v10+
  • NPM 6+
  • forever (recommended)
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo npm install forever -g

Forever Commands Reference

  • forever start: starts a script as a daemon.
  • forever stop: stops the daemon script by Id|Uid|Pid|Index|Script.
  • forever stopall: stops all running scripts.
  • forever restart: restarts the daemon script.
  • forever restartall: restarts all running forever scripts.