Mock serverside API requests using NextJS and MSWjs

There are multiple reasons why we would want to mock out a service side API request: local development, offline development, avoid hitting rate limits on third party services and manipulating data for testing. This can be difficult but with the MSWjs library this is straightforward and can easily be integrated with NextJS using the latest instrumentation experimental feature.

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Mock serverside API requests using NextJS and MSWjs ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2lz6W12BCQ