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https://github.com/callmehiphop/backend/blob/master/lib/mock.js#L36

Can you please release a new version to npm? Lots of important changes in since v0.3.1.

The latest tagged version of this library for bower : 533e18a : does not include an updated version of the backend.js file that would be used if including it as a standalone.

For some reason, the latest version (0.2.5) in npm does not install with the index.js file so it could load the module.

I think bower.json needs to be updated to point main to backend.js.

Instead of packaging a custom build, you can just use the pieces you need from npm, such as https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash.ismatch

I use browserify for my client side coding and since then I have moved away from using bower and just sticking with npm for installing all dependencies (having one tool is better than 2 tools for managing dependencies). Now the code here is already written in a CommonJS style so I think making this available on NPM should not be terribly hard, I imagine it is just tweaking the package.json file and just testing.

If this is something you think is a good idea and be willing to accept as a PR, I would probably be able to find some time either this weekend or next to give it a go. What do you think?

I know this library is based off of angular's $httpBackend but one thing I hated with that library was it was not easy to delay responses if you wanted to. I have a modified version of this library that I can create a pull request for but before that I want to make sure your good with the functionality and API of doing this. To delay a response in my modified version of the library, the code looks like this:

backend
.when('GET', '/api/users/1')
.options({
    delay: 2000
})
.respond({
    name: 'Jake',
    species: 'Dog',
    magicPowers: true,
    location: 'Ooooo'
}, {
    'content-type': 'application/json'
});

Do you like this functionality and API for enabling it? If so I will create a pull request.

One of the most powerful features of $httpBackend was the expectGET family of APIs that would assert that a call would happen and only once. Sure there's no $digest cycle (thank god) but we can do the assertions on verifyNoOutstandingExpectations and verifyNoOutstandingRequests during our test cleanup.

need moar of em