We've all been there.

You're three days into a new dashboard feature. The backend is "almost done." You need to start integrating, but the API doesn't exist yet -- so you do what every frontend dev does: you hardcode some JSON and move on.

// "temporary" mock data. Aged like milk. const products = [ { id : 1 , name : " Product A " , price : 29.99 }, { id : 2 , name : " Product B " , price : 49.99 }, ];

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Two weeks later, that products array is still sitting in your codebase. Your teammate on a different machine can't access your local JSON Server. Your Postman mock ran out of free calls.…