Selenium E2E Tests with MockHero Seeded Data

Pattern

Selenium doesn't care how the data got there — just make sure it's seeded before the browser hits the page. Use your CI's Before Suite step to call MockHero and populate your DB.

# .github/workflows/e2e.yml
- name: Seed test data
  run: node scripts/seed.mjs
  env:
    MOCKHERO_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOCKHERO_API_KEY }}
    DATABASE_URL: ${{ secrets.TEST_DATABASE_URL }}

- name: Selenium tests
  run: pytest tests/selenium

// scripts/seed.mjs
const data = await fetch("https://api.mockhero.dev/api/v1/generate", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.MOCKHERO_API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    seed: 1,
    tables: [
      { name: "users", count: 10, fields: [
        { name: "id", type: "uuid" },
        { name: "email", type: "email" }
      ]}
    ]
  })
}).then(r => r.json());
// insert into test DB ...

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