Confusion around slice mock files + mock regeneration

[Phil (Phil Snow)]

Hi Vitor,

Welcome to the community!

So this has been discussed before:

How to change Slicemachine storybook snapshot location

Hi Dan, I talked with the team to get some follow up information on your questions. The issue with manually doing this is that any time you make a change in the Slice editor your mocks will be overwritten and you'll be back to square one. We've tested this, and while there is no issue connecting a custom story, connecting a custom mock causes issues. So to answer your main question: There is no good way of doing this for the moment. I realise how tedious the alternative is for you, but t…

But to summarise there's no good way to use custom mocks or disable the automatic mock changes at the moment.

The team is aware of this feature request and I'm adding another mark here with your request.

If/when this behaviour ever changes, we will update you here.

The files you have above server these functions:
.slicemachine/mock-config.json - Settings to tell Slice Machine how to create the mock. These settings are changed in the Slice Machine UI.
.slicemachine/assets/slices/[MySlice]/mocks.json - The actual mock data.
The story file. - Settings to connect this data to Storybook.

Thanks.