REST API Playgrounds and Tools

API, OAuth, API resources

This is an interesting list of free public APIs

And here is a Guide to the Most Popular Types of APIs: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC

API Playgrounds

Consuming REST API, REST API Debugger, debugger for RESTful web services, REST API Playgrounds, Visual HTTP client, Postman Copycats

Uglavnom je sad sve ovo urađeno kao Web aplikacija, ali ima ih još poneki u formi browser extenzije.

API Playgrounds as Apps

Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch | hoppscotch/hoppscotch is open-source API development ecosystem. Old name was Postwoman. Also supports GraphQL i gomilu drugih realtime standarda kao WebSocket i Socket.IO pa čak i MQTT! A i definitivno vizelno izgleda najbolje od svih open-source projekata. Jedino što Insomnia ima a on nema je gRPC

Restfox

Restfox | flawiddsouza/Restfox is offline-first web based HTTP client similar to Postman & Insomnia. Iako izgleda jednostavno, može dosta toga, a open-source je i dalje.

There is also Restfox CORS Helper Firefox extension with ability to bypass CORS restrictions so that you can make requests from the Restfox web application without worrying about CORS issues.

Insomnia API Client

Insomnia je oduvek bio najpoznatiji konkurent Postman-a. Sada se zovu collaborative API development platform. Insomnia supports also GraphQL, ali izgleda da je to sad često. For free you get all tooling and collaboration, but only for one cloud project. Izgleda da je klijent Kong/insomnia pa jel open-source? Jeste? cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. Woow: gRPC

Others

Postman je onaj koji je prvi sve počeo. Sada je veliki monstrum, “platforma”, ali je i dalje free for up to 3 users with core tooling and collaboration
Talend API Tester - Free Edition was free “Restlet Client” before but now is aquired
Tabbed Postman | oznu/postman-chrome-extension-legacy is forked legacy Postman extension that can still run in a Chrome tab
RapidAPI for Mac is visual HTTP client for Mac, now free. Info when introduced: Paw
API Tester is defunct

API Playgrounds as Extensions

Ima dosta extenzija za VS Code, ali je REST Client ubedljivo najpopularniji.

VSCode extension REST Client | Huachao/vscode-restclient REST and GraphQL Client. Predivno jer podržava komande iz fajla, čak i compose MULTIPLE requests in a single file (separated by ### delimiter).
VSCode extension rangav/thunder-client-support is very leightweigh, founding article
Browser extension RESTClient | chao/RESTClient is Firefox-only extension with 40K users
Emacs extension pashky/restclient.el: HTTP REST client tool for emacs je REST tool for emacs, ali se meni sviđa ideja da runs queries from a plain-text query sheet. Ima li nešto slično a da nije specifično za Emacs?

Google API Specific Tools

Official Google OAuth 2.0 Playground is something like Postman for Google only.

Article about integrating Google Client Side OAuth 2.0 with React: OAuth with React

Creating REST API

Swagger is API design and documentation tool. Swagger is an open-source set of rules, specs and tools for developing and describing REST APIs. Check Swagger Editor.

API Testing Tools

intuit/karate: Web-Services Testing Made Simple je baš ambiciozan. Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework
CacheControl/hippie-swagger: API testing tool with automatic swagger assertions hippie-swagger is a tool for testing RESTful APIs. In addition to validating api behavior, it will fail tests when swagger documentation is missing or inaccurate.

date 23. Jan 2023 | modified 29. Dec 2023

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