keikaavousi/fake-store-api

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2585 stars · 518 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

FakeStoreAPI is a free hosted REST API that serves pseudo-real e-commerce JSON data including products, carts, users, and JWT login tokens. It is built with Node.js (Express) and MongoDB and is intended for prototyping, testing, and teaching without running backend code.

Use cases

• fake e-commerce data for frontend prototypes
• rest api for testing shopping cart flows
• sample data for teaching react or vue
• mock products api for portfolio projects
• test jwt authentication without a backend
• placeholder data for mobile shopping app demos

When to choose

• you need realistic e-commerce data quickly without setting up a server
• you are building a shopping website prototype or tutorial
• you want to practice REST calls (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH) against a live API
• you need a free public API for testing frontend or mobile apps

When to avoid

• you need data to persist, since POSTed data is not really saved
• you need production-grade or customizable e-commerce backend
• you need guaranteed uptime or SLAs for production workloads
• you need data beyond products, carts, users, and login tokens

Facets

service · maturity stable

http-server api-framework mock-api auth apis e-commerce web-development developer-tools testing self-hosted fake-data rest-api e-commerce prototyping mock-data jwt free-api nodejs web-server

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