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  • Karate

    Test Automation Made Simple

    Link: Karate DSL

  • CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  • thunder-client-support

    Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for VS Code.

    Link: Thunder Client

  • redoc

    📘 OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation

    Link: Redoc

  • soapui

    SoapUI is a free and open source cross-platform functional testing solution for APIs and web services.

    Link: SoapUI

  • Newman

    Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

    Link: Postman

  • insomnia

    The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

    Link: Insomnia

  • httpie

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

    Link: HTTPie

  • SaaSHub

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

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  • Hoppscotch

    Open source API development ecosystem.

    Link: Hoppscotch

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