So normally in development you'd have a development server with trivial data with a /GET OR /POST API route to test am I right? This is what I am used to but ..when I got hired at my new company.. I noticed that there is no actual /GET OR /POST OR ANY API routes at all. We have NO access to a development server. This application was built in 2007 and so I was told that is the only way they could test data back in the day. When we start on a new feature WE the front end are asked to create a large mock json file so backend can write a script to replicate it..it is so annoying. I feel as though, backend should be coming up with the data sets and not the front end but whatever. Essentially I am reading json responses over http for everything. So you may ask, well how does the data get shown in production? We'll we use /mock.json files (POST req) to (GET & POST OUR DATA..I know weird because technically POST returns data) & in production, we have a java engineer who runs a java .do script that switches our /mock.json over to a real /post API route automatically when he runs his server. I'm sorry. I know this all seems super confusing, well it is because it is. The issue is, that I can never test data in real-time. I have to wait til pre-prod is up & we go back and manually test what went wrong with our mock.json files. Is this normal? (BTW WE HAVE NO UNIT TEST IMPLEMENTATION, WE FETCH MOCK JSON FOR GENERAL USE & NOT UNIT TEST)