ember-service-worker-request-chaos

Often our applications talk to external APIs. Sometimes our apps talk to external APIs that suck are unreliable. Often, we don't test the failure cases well enough (or at all).

• What does it look like when a request to X service flakes out?
• Where could we add recovery options?

We can answer these questions with Service Workers and not have to spend time setting up a proxy on our local machines to MITM all of our traffic. This addon adds a service worker via ember-service-worker to intercept specified requests and will randomly return error responses in the 5xx range.

Find out how well your application tolerates failure!

Runtime dependencies

• ember-service-worker

Installation

• ember install ember-service-worker - (If you're not already using it)

• ember install ember-service-worker-request-chaos

• Define some patterns to intercept in your ember-cli-build.js

  /* eslint-env node */
  'use strict';
  
  const EmberAddon = require('ember-cli/lib/broccoli/ember-addon');
  
  module.exports = function(defaults) {
    let app = new EmberApp(defaults, {
      'esw-request-chaos': {
        // RegExp patterns specifying which URLs to wreck chaos.
        patterns: [
          'https://scaling.is.difficult/api/(.+)',
        ]
      }
    });
  
    // [...]
  };
  
  

Installation for development

• git clone <repository-url> this repository
• cd ember-service-worker-request-chaos
• yarn install

Running tests

• yarn test (Runs ember try:each to test your addon against multiple Ember versions)
• ember test
• ember test --server

TODO

• Configure to only include in development environment