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JSON Server is a tool that creates a full REST API from a JSON file for rapid prototyping. It supports advanced querying, pagination, sorting, and relation embedding without writing any backend code.
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JSON Server : A quick and dirty way to spin up a full fake REST API with zero coding, using just a simple JSON file as a database.

JSON Server : A classic, lightweight Node-based tool that turns a simple local db.json file into a full-featured REST API