Backend devs on here, before postman existed? How were you testing your apis ?

• jest

  473 43,553 9.6 TypeScript

  Delightful JavaScript Testing.

  

Nowadays, I use Postman occasionally to debug a single endpoint, but I use Jest for most API testing.

• swagger-ui

  131 25,507 9.8 JavaScript

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

  

For REST APIs, since about 2012, we started using swaggerSwagger. Before swagger, we would write custom tests for our APIs and documentation was in a bit of a weird state. This was as tooling slowly caught up to what we had for WSDLs in SOAP and tooling in the form of SOAP UI.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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