Bridgends

Its a development tool used to support frontend and backend developers during developing and using API.

See more on Bridgends.com.

Install and get started with bridgends

This page helps you to get started easily with the application. The application uses embeded database and also the code has packaged into an executable file so you don't need to install any other dependencies. Download it from here.

Install previous version

If you want to test the previous version of bridgends which is not suggested you need to do as the following. Suppose we want to run bridgends on a front end developer's system and there is an API on http://192.168.82.198:81/api/

• npm i bridgends -g
• bridgends start -t http://192.168.82.198:81/ -p 4243
• change frontend code to proxy all request through localhost:4243/proxy
  • if you are using webpack just change the proxy

  proxy: {
      "/api": {
           target: "http://localhost:4243/proxy",
      }
  }
  

• start front end web app
• open localhost:4243 in your browser and handle every request passing through

CLI options

Start and stop bridgends process

bridgends start -t http://192.168.82.198:81/
bridgends stop

Multiple API target

bridgends start -t http://192.168.82.198:81/,http://192.168.82.122:81/
bridgends stop

Set port, savePath

Defaults

• port: 6464
• file path: ./bridgendsfiles

bridgends start -t http://192.168.82.198:81/ -a /api2 -p 4542 -f /home/fingerpich/bridgendsFiles
bridgends stop

Run multi instance

bridgends start name
bridgends stop name