Hi everyone,

At my work, we develop a lot of websites, services and other kinds of applications. These applications have dependencies on a variety of other webservices, making local development a pain in the ass in some cases (you have to prepare your data in the several external web services so you can finally debug your application).

To make this process easier, I decided to make a sort of "generic" HTTP stub. It reads a .yml file where you define all your stubs (a set of conditions a request needs to adhere to and the response it has to return) and you can point your application to HttPlaceholder instead of to the real deal.

You can find the project here: https://github.com/dukeofharen/httplaceholder

P.S.: I know of other stub applications, but some only let you return JSON (we still work a lot with SOAP) and other ones need you to program (which is not a big deal for me and other developers, but for some QA people, it may be a bit too technical). That's why I think defining your stubs in a .yml file is the perfect middleground. Oh yeah, I also made it because I wanted to :P