Perplexity Local Dev Loop

Overview

Set up a fast, cost-effective local development workflow for Perplexity Sonar API. Key challenge: every real API call performs a web search and costs money, so mocking and caching are essential for development.

Prerequisites

• Completed perplexity-install-auth setup
• Node.js 18+ with npm/pnpm
• vitest for testing

Instructions

Step 1: Project Structure