slate VS insomnia

Compare slate vs insomnia and see what are their differences.

slate

Beautiful static documentation for your API (by slatedocs)

insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage. (by Kong)
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slate insomnia
21 223
35,788 32,834
0.3% 1.7%
4.4 9.7
9 days ago about 18 hours ago
SCSS JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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slate

Posts with mentions or reviews of slate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-16.
  • 10+ API Documentation Tools For Super Busy Developers 👩‍💻
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2023
    Slate (Free)
  • How do i document my api ?
    5 projects | /r/node | 19 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/slatedocs/slate this ! Big company use it ( stripe etc )
  • Twelve Amazing Free Hugo Documentation Themes
    14 projects | dev.to | 16 May 2022
    DocuAPI is a multilingual API documentation theme for Hugo created and maintained by Bjørn Erik Pedersen, the lead maintainer and co-creator of Hugo itself. It’s built on top of the Slate API docs generator, which itself was inspired by Stripe’s and PayPal’s API docs. The JavaScript section of DocuAPI has been rewritten from Jquery to AlpineJS.​​​​​​
  • Create and deploy API documentation to Kubernetes
    4 projects | dev.to | 31 Mar 2022
    If you are going to use Slate from the console you need to install it, along with all its prerequisites, as described here. In Ubuntu you can execute the commands:
  • How does Stripe create this style of documentation?
    3 projects | /r/web_design | 4 Mar 2022
    Slate - API Generator
  • Building API Docs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2022
  • What would you like to see Stripe improve on iOS?
    3 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 18 Jan 2022
    I'm using Slate right now which is a common recommendation for Stripe-like documentation, but obviously it's not the same.
  • Favorite API Documentation UI/UX
    2 projects | /r/api | 4 Jun 2021
    While not as visually impressive with flashy graphics and UI elements, Twilio's documentation has similar Stripe vibes as I believe it's built on Slate which is about as close to Stripe's framework as you can get. I like the theme used[4] in the code sample section as it's a nice break from the standard colors and it's easy on the eyes.
  • Best toolset/workflow for prototyping and iterating an API?
    6 projects | /r/node | 18 May 2021
    That's about the API design and specification. Now let's turn our attention to API UIs for visualisation and interaction. API UIs are useful for other people to easily understand your API. Again, quite a variety of choices in this area, but the most common are Swagger UI and Redoc. Lots of frameworks and tools will allow you to render the Swagger or Redoc UI of an OpenAPI spec from the specification document, such as Swagger's editor. And if you're comfortable enough with JavaScript, you can do the rendering yourself using the npm package. A fancier UI is Slate. I don't know whether Slate will automatically generate code samples in every popular language, but it does allow you to write the samples yourself. There're various tools that render a Slate UI from an OpenAPI specification. I believe Postman also allows you to generate a fancy UI.
  • Best platform for writing api docs?
    2 projects | /r/api | 7 Apr 2021
    For API-specific docs I use Slate as I like the code sample section off to the right. I converted our previous severely lacking Swagger setup to a full-featured framework with Slate that has significantly reduced the number of support emails regarding API questions.

insomnia

Posts with mentions or reviews of insomnia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing slate and insomnia you can also consider the following projects:

redoc - 📘 OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation

Postwoman - 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

altair - ✨⚡️ A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.

bloomrpc - Former GUI client for gRPC services. No longer maintained.

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

insomnium - Insomnium is a fast local API testing tool that is privacy-focused and 100% local. For testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. This is a fork of Kong/insomnia

postman-app-support - Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)