Creating a Server
New mock servers are created from a small modal dialog. The dialog is opened by clicking the + button in the Mocks title bar at the top of the sidebar. It asks for two things: a name and a port. Only the name is required.
Name
The name is a free-text label shown on the server card in the sidebar and in the header of the editor. It is the label you use to tell servers apart, so use something descriptive — for example Payment API, Staging Auth, or Legacy Orders. The input accepts up to 50 characters and is trimmed of leading and trailing whitespace before the server is saved.
Pressing Enter while the name field is focused submits the form, as long as the name is not empty and the port field does not show an error.
Port
The port is optional. Leaving it blank lets Tigrister pick an available port for you, starting from 4000and walking upward until it finds one that is free. If you want a specific port — typically because another tool expects the mock to be at a known address — type it into the input. The field only accepts digits; other characters are filtered out as you type.
- •Valid range: 1024 to 65535. Anything outside this range is rejected with a short inline message.
- •Reserved ports: a small set of ports are reserved for Tigrister's own internal services and cannot be used for a mock server. Picking one shows the message "Port is reserved by Tigrister".
- •Already used inside Tigrister: if another mock server in the same workspace is already configured on that port, you get "Port is already used by another mock server".
- •Already used by the system: Tigrister also quickly probes the port on the operating system. If another application — even one outside Tigrister — is already listening there, you get "Port is in use by another application".
While the system check is in flight, the Create button stays disabled for a short moment to prevent submitting a port that has not been fully verified yet.
Creating and Cancelling
The footer of the dialog has two buttons: Cancel closes the dialog without creating anything, and Createcreates the server with the given name and port (or auto-assigns a port if the field was left blank). After creation the dialog closes, the new server appears in the sidebar list, and you can click it to open the editor for the first time. New servers start with no endpoints and are not running.
The dialog can also be dismissed by pressing Escape or by clicking outside the dialog box on the darkened background.