Why not MSW?

[NullVoxPopuli]

MSW, for reference: https://mswjs.io/

Reason I bring this up, is that, while some of the ember-data mocking community has been using Mirage, and Mirage is an absolutely horrendous experience, MSW (while not having a well formed data-mocking library), it provides a much needed benefit in DX, debuggability, and ease of understanding when it comes to figuring out what went wrong with your network requests.

I could see a plugin/library that hooks in to MSW that understand ember-data/warp-drive and provides better mocking than mirage, which brings us to:

• 🛤️ tracking: The Road to Polaris ✨ #9337

There are mentions of "holodeck", which is described under mocking here (snippet from the above issue)

Nice To Have

    Mocking
        Ship stable of @warp-drive/holodeck
            Make it easy to toggle recording for the entire test-suite
            Integrate recording toggle to testem and diagnostic options
            Add docs for testem config
            fix shutdown bug
        http/3 ? (if Bun lands support)
        Provide utils and docs around how to functionally compose mock data
        for holodeck
        API Route Mocking

None of this is inherently incompatible with MSW, afaik.

Now, in discord, there have been mentions of warp-drive creating its own mocking tool, its own server, etc.
And, there is a lot that goes in to that -- it's why MSW has tons of time and effort put in, as has other mocking utilities.

I have a concern, that we don't have enough resources to compete with MSW -- and I'd like to understand (or rather, have stated publicly), what tradeoffs are being considered for warp-drive's mocking and testing tools, if there is anything the warp-drive project inherently doesn't not vibe with when it comes to MSW, etc. MSW used to be buggy -- I think they've fixed all that (for the small things that I've used for -- and maybe other community members could provide their success with MSW (such as 3x speed improvement over using just mirage), etc.

I think we can accelerate be building on existing tools 🎉
(and mostly, I hope that this issue can be a reference (in part, because I keep forgetting the details))

[runspired]

MSW doesn't offer half of what holodeck already offers, and never can. Kinda simple as that. Also what it does is vastly over-complicated due to its approach to interception.

[NullVoxPopuli]

It would be good to outline what those specific offerings are