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The Frontend of the Computer

Oxide and Friends

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The Importance of Using a Real API

Mocks are never going to really cover every real world case. So, you know, there are a lot of situations where the data that you're testing against, it's really hard to get realistic mock data. When we run into bugs in the, in the rack, we can actually point our local server. We can do local dev, but just pointing at the, at the real API.

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