Zimic: TypeScript-first HTTP integrations

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Zimic is a set of TypeScript-first HTTP integration libraries, designed with developer experience and type safety in mind. https://zimic.dev --- Background: Ever since I first started using TypeScript, I felt that mocking HTTP responses was hard to scale with tools like MSW and Nock. Having used these libraries for a couple of years, primarily for testing, I often had to write, review, and duplicate a lot of custom abstractions on top of them, trying to ensure: • Mock compliance: every mock should be realistic and accurate with the real service it represents; mocks with incorrect parameters, incompatible responses, or out of sync with the actual API directly reduce test confidence; • Test completeness: if an application is expected make a number of requests with certain parameters, it should be clear from the tests what these expectations are and they should fail if not met; Over the years, I've come to believe that the tools we use have a unique opportunity to shape our mental models and encourage good practices. So I started exploring a question: How could a library help developers create better API mocks? The insights I gained during my research led to the early drafts of @ zimic/interceptor and a published paper on IEEE ( https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11126628 ). From there, I started expanding Zimic's core principles to cover more aspects of the development process, not just API mocking: • @ zimic/http: declare HTTP schemas, infer types from OpenAPI, and type native Web APIs. • @ zimic/fetch: create type-safe Fetch API clients and have your requests and responses fully typed by default. • @ zimic/interceptor: mock HTTP services in development and testing, and simulate responses with type safety. Earlier this year, Zimic reached 1.0 and I'm curious to hear what you think! https://zimic.dev

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