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Sometimes, some projects have a local development environment that’s not completely isolated and depends on some infrastructure that we cannot locally raise, be it because of license issues, time constraints, etc.

In my case, this dependency is a service that receives numerous API calls, each taking some time to respond, and since we don’t have the pertinent license we cannot test it in local.

Since we don’t want to disclose client data, we’ll use as an example this page that’s full of cats: https://http.cat/.

json-caching-proxy

Searching, I found an npm library to cache these API calls, and that will only take some time on the first occasion a request is done. There’re plenty of libraries that can do this. I chose this next one, it seems to work pretty well https://www.npmjs.com/package/json-caching-proxy.

npm install -D json-caching-proxy

Once installed, we’ll create a main.js file where we’ll add the next

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