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Camouflage is a service virtualization tool inspired by namshi/mockserver. As the original description says, the mocking/service virtualization works on a file based structure where you simply organize your mocked HTTP responses in a bunch of mock files and it will serve them like they were coming from a real API; in this way you can write your frontends without caring too much whether your backend is really ready or not.

Caution

This Camouflage project is a Deno port of a Node project with the same name. Due to current limitations of Deno, there are some functionalities which are missing in Deno port (eg clustering, gRPC mocking, HTTP2 mocking). If you are okay with using Node JS for now, feel free to checkout the original project Camouflage for some really cool additional features. We'll be adding same features in this project as and when Deno allows.

Why did we create Camouflage if a similar tool already exists?

Well, the original tool has not been maintained for some time now. But more importantly, Camouflage simply borrows the idea from the original and though it does use some of the same logic and functions, majority of the code has been written from scratch.

1. The underlying codebase has been re-written to run on Deno.
2. Some features from the original tool might be missing, or have been implemented differently. (import and eval have not been ported to Camouflage)
3. Camouflage introduces handlebars, which allows you to generate dynamic (more real) responses.
4. Using handlebars, you can generate random numbers, string, alphanumeric string, UUIDs and random dates.
5. You can also extract information from request queries, path, body or headers and use them in your response.
6. You can use handlebars to carry out request matching for you. For example, return one response if a query param exists, return another if it doesn't.
7. Camouflage currently supports 2 protocols, i.e. HTTP, HTTPs.