Introduction

FauxRPC

FauxRPC is a powerful tool that empowers you to accelerate development and testing by effortlessly generating fake implementations of gRPC, gRPC-Web, Connect, and REST services. If you have a protobuf-based workflow, this tool could help.

How it Works

FauxRPC leverages your Protobuf definitions to generate fake services that mimic the behavior of real ones. You can easily configure the fake data returned, allowing you to simulate various scenarios and edge cases. It takes in *.proto files or protobuf descriptors (in binpb, json, txtpb, yaml formats), then it automatically starts up a server that can speak gRPC/gRPC-Web/Connect and REST (as long as there are google.api.http annotations defined). Descriptors contain all of the information found in a set of .proto files. You can generate them with protoc or the buf build command.

Status: Alpha

This project is just starting out. I plan to add a lot of things that make this tool actually usable in more situations.

Keep track of the progress by following issues and pull requests on GitHub.