Question

I want to become better at making client side html/javascript apps. JSbin.com is a great site for that. But I want to have my test sites also call web services to fetch data. The data can be completely fake, I just need something to interact with.

Is there a good way to make a publicly available set of web services with your own fake data? It can be temporary, that’s fine. But it cannot be something that runs only on my local machine, as I want to be able to test this and work with it while, for example, far away from my desk working on my ipad.

Answer 1

jsFiddle has an echo feature that allows you to simulate XHR requests. It supports JSON, XML, jsonP, etc.

From their docs

new Request.JSON({
    url: '/echo/json/',
    data: {
        json: JSON.encode({
            text: 'some text',
            array: [1, 2, 'three'],
            object: {
                par1: 'another text',
                par2: [3, 2, 'one'],
                par3: {}
            }
        }),
        delay: 3
    },
    onSuccess: function(response) {
        show_response(response, $('post'));
    }
}).send();

show_response = function(obj, result) {
    $H(obj).each(function(v, k) {
        new Element('li', {
            text: k + ': ' + v
        }).inject(result);
    });
    result.highlight();
};