In this article, I will go through how to spin up a stub/mock server and proxy server using netcat.

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Use case: Usually, when integrating with external service endpoints in your backend application, you will be using libraries (require('https') for Nodejs, import requests or import aiohttp for Python, HttpUrlConnection for Java, etc.) to make HTTP calls. It might be difficult...

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