Top 23 JavaScript REST-API Projects

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1. bruno

   1 117 47,334 9.9 JavaScript

   Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

   

   Project mention: Postman Without an Account: What Still Works in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-08-25

   Full disclosure, since you're on Bruno's blog: this is where we tell you about Bruno. We'll keep it factual.

2. AppSignal

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   Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

   

3. swagger-ui

   2 172 29,026 9.1 JavaScript

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

   

   Project mention: Publishing OAS-Based API Doc on GitHub Pages | dev.to | 2026-03-15

   Most of the content is the same as what is written here.

4. parse-server

   3 43 21,404 9.7 JavaScript

   Parse Server for Node.js / Express

   

   Project mention: AI Coding: Building a 1-Hour App Clone Is Easy. Shipping It Is the Work | dev.to | 2026-03-18

   If you’re coming from the Parse ecosystem, it may help to know that Parse itself is a long-running open source backend framework. You can start from the official Parse Platform site, or go deeper with the community’s Parse Server repository. Our own developer docs are organized around that reality. If you want implementation-level guides, start with our SashiDo Documentation.

5. Restify

   4 8 10,687 6.6 JavaScript

   The future of Node.js REST development

   

6. swagger-editor

   5 48 9,468 9.2 JavaScript

   Swagger Editor

   

   Project mention: Swagger의 사실과 오해: API-First Development | dev.to | 2025-12-01

7. node-express-boilerplate

   6 13 7,667 2.0 JavaScript

   A boilerplate for building production-ready RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose

   

8. mediacms

   7 45 5,134 8.2 JavaScript

   MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. headless-wp-starter

    8 2 4,546 0.0 JavaScript

    🔪 WordPress + React Starter Kit: Spin up a WordPress-powered React app in one step

    

11. nodejs-basics

    9 2 3,210 7.2 JavaScript

    Node.js Basics ( v24.x )

    

12. Swagger Client

    10 2 2,694 8.9 JavaScript

    Javascript library to connect to swagger-enabled APIs via browser or nodejs

    

13. quotable

    11 14 2,089 3.4 JavaScript

    Random Quotes API

    

14. rest

    12 1 1,809 0.0 JavaScript

    REST API generator with Node.js, Express and Mongoose (by diegohaz)

    

15. frisby

    13 1 1,511 0.0 JavaScript

    Frisby is a REST API testing framework built on Jest that makes testing API endpoints easy, fast, and fun. (by vlucas)

    

16. swagger-parser

    14 2 1,210 3.1 JavaScript

    Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 parser/validator

    

17. node.js-clean-architecture

    15 1 1,164 5.0 JavaScript

    A use case of Clean Architecture in Node.js comprising of Express.js, MongoDB and Redis as the main (but replaceable) infrastructure.

    

18. rick-and-morty-api

    16 14 1,038 0.0 JavaScript

    The Rick and Morty API

    

19. open-api

    17 2 921 3.1 JavaScript

    A Monorepo of various packages to power OpenAPI in node

    

20. woo-next

    18 5 893 0.0 JavaScript

    :rocket: React WooCommerce theme, built with Next JS, Webpack, Babel, Node, Express, using GraphQL and Apollo Client

    

21. Ultimate-NodeJs-Resources

    19 3 555 5.8 JavaScript

    All resources related to Node Js at one place

    

22. json-server-heroku

    20 4 502 0.0 JavaScript

    Deploy json-server to Heroku & Glitch & Azure :up: :free:

    

23. restana

    21 1 468 7.4 JavaScript

    Restana is a lightweight and fast Node.js framework for building RESTful APIs.

    

24. speakeasy

    22 7 451 9.4 JavaScript

    Build APIs your users love ❤️ with Speakeasy. ✨ Polished and type-safe SDKs. 🌐 Terraform providers, MCP servers, CLIs and Contract Tests for your API. OpenAPI native. (by speakeasy-api)

    

25. rest-api-tutorial

    23 1 431 0.0 JavaScript

    This is a sample source code for the article published on Toptal: https://www.toptal.com/nodejs/secure-rest-api-in-nodejs

    

26. SaaSHub

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    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    

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