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Top 23 JavaScript REST Projects
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import { bookmarks } from './src/db/schema'; ... const sampleBookmarks = [ { title: "Hono Framework", url: "https://hono.dev", description: "A lightweight web framework for building APIs and applications.", tags: "hono, framework, edge", }, { title: "Drizzle ORM", url: "https://orm.drizzle.team", description: "A type-safe ORM designed for SQL databases.", tags: "orm, database, typescript", }, { title: "Cloudflare D1", url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/", description: "Cloudflare’s globally distributed, serverless database.", tags: "cloudflare, database, d1", }, { title: "HTMX", url: "https://htmx.org", description: "A library that allows access to modern browser features directly from HTML.", tags: "htmx, frontend, html", }, { title: "MDN Web Docs", url: "https://developer.mozilla.org", description: "Comprehensive documentation for web technologies.", tags: "documentation, web, mdn", }, ]; seedDatabase(); async function seedDatabase() { ... try { await db.insert(bookmarks).values(sampleBookmarks); console.log('✅ Database seeded successfully!'); if (!isProd) { } } catch (error) { console.error('❌ Error seeding database:', error); process.exit(1); } finally { process.exit(0); } }
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swagger-ui
Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
Project mention: 🚀 The Ultimate Guide to REST API Design: Best Practices & Patterns You Can’t Ignore | dev.to | 2025-03-05Not documenting your API (use tools like Swagger)
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Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF
Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and security assessment framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis.
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Project mention: Awesome Resources for Building Fullstack Serverless Applications | dev.to | 2024-12-24
OpenAPI Swagger Editor https://editor.swagger.io/
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nodejs-testing-best-practices
✅ Beyond the basics of Node.js testing. Including a super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app (March 2025)
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Nutrient
Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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soul
🕉 Soul | Automatic SQLite RESTful and realtime API server | Build CRUD APIs in seconds! (by thevahidal)
Project mention: Show HN: Soul – A SQLite REST and Realtime Server with Auth Mode and Extensions | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-26 -
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swagger-stats
API Observability. Trace API calls and Monitor API performance, health and usage statistics in Node.js Microservices.
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Chakram is a REST JavaScript API testing tools framework with a BDD testing style and fully exploiting promises. It is designed for HTTP assertions and provides a simple and readable DSL (Domain-Specific Language) that makes it easy for developers and testers to write tests.
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Project mention: Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-10
This looks great. I love that it's using YAML files that can be version controlled and shared.
I developed Just-API (https://github.com/kiranz/just-api) with YAMLs for automation testing of APIs.
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ServeRest
APIs REST simulando loja virtual para servir de estudo de testes de API de forma manual ou automatizada
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ably-js
Javascript, Node, Typescript, React, React Native client library SDK for Ably realtime messaging service
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source REST projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | htmx | 43,890 |
| 2 | swagger-ui | 27,042 |
| 3 | Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF | 18,186 |
| 4 | swagger-editor | 9,060 |
| 5 | react-refetch | 3,429 |
| 6 | nodejs-testing-best-practices | 3,362 |
| 7 | Swagger Client | 2,646 |
| 8 | rest | 1,796 |
| 9 | vue-api-query | 1,670 |
| 10 | soul | 1,566 |
| 11 | platformatic | 1,543 |
| 12 | apicache | 1,240 |
| 13 | SOFA | 1,085 |
| 14 | swagger-stats | 909 |
| 15 | chakram | 908 |
| 16 | just-api | 818 |
| 17 | ServeRest | 767 |
| 18 | examples | 701 |
| 19 | purest | 554 |
| 20 | json-server-heroku | 508 |
| 21 | cookbook | 461 |
| 22 | twinspark-js | 434 |
| 23 | ably-js | 327 |
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