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  • public-apis

    A collective list of free APIs

    • Project mention: 10 GitHub repositories that every developer must follow | dev.to | 2024-02-21

    ✅ public-apis/public-apis : https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

    • Project mention: Why Neovim is My Text Editor of Choice | dev.to | 2024-04-23

    As a software engineer, choosing and understanding your text editor is important part of your work, as it impacts your productivity and workflow efficiency. It's like choosing the perfect tool for any trade - you need to know what tool to use and how to use it effectively if you want to excel. For me, I use Neovim as my editor and I have been using it for a little over a year now.

  • SurveyJS

    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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  • fastapi

    FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

    • Project mention: FastAPI Got Me an OpenAPI Spec Really... Fast | dev.to | 2024-04-22

    That’s when I found FastAPI.

  • Postwoman

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

    • Project mention: Bypass CORS errors while testing your APIs using Hoppscotch 🔧 | dev.to | 2024-04-17

    How can Hoppscotch help you intercept the API calls? 👽

  • Strapi

    🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

    • Project mention: How to Build an AI FAQ System with Strapi, LangChain & OpenAI | dev.to | 2024-04-21

    Strapi provides a centralized data managing platform. This makes it easier to organize, update, and maintain the FAQ data. It also automatically generates a RESTful API for accessing the content stored in its database.

  • imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

    • Project mention: Using raylib with Dear ImGui: Game Dev Debugging UI | dev.to | 2024-04-06

    include(cmake/CPM.cmake) function(raylib_imgui_setup_dependencies) message(STATUS "Include Dear ImGui") FetchContent_Declare( ImGui GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/ocornut/imgui GIT_TAG 277ae93c41314ba5f4c7444f37c4319cdf07e8cf) # v1.90.4 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(ImGui) FetchContent_GetProperties(ImGui SOURCE_DIR IMGUI_DIR) add_library( imgui STATIC ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui.cpp ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui_draw.cpp ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui_widgets.cpp ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui_tables.cpp) target_include_directories(imgui INTERFACE ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}) include(cmake/CPM.cmake) message(STATUS "Include dbg-macro") cpmaddpackage( "gh:sharkdp/dbg-macro#fb9976f410f8b29105818b20278cd0be0e853fe8" )# v0.5.1 message(STATUS "Include fmtlib") cpmaddpackage("gh:fmtlib/fmt#e69e5f977d458f2650bb346dadf2ad30c5320281" )# 10.x message(STATUS "Include raylib") cpmaddpackage("gh:raysan5/raylib#ae50bfa2cc569c0f8d5bc4315d39db64005b1b0" )# v5.0 message(STATUS "Include spdlog") cpmaddpackage("gh:gabime/spdlog#7c02e204c92545f869e2f04edaab1f19fe8b19fd" )# v1.13.0 message(STATUS "Include rlImGui") FetchContent_Declare( rlImGui GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/raylib-extras/rlImGui GIT_TAG d765c1ef3d37cf939f88aaa272a59a2713d654c9) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(rlImGui) FetchContent_GetProperties(rlImGui SOURCE_DIR RLIMGUI_DIR) add_library(rlimgui STATIC ${rlimgui_SOURCE_DIR}/rlImgui.cpp) target_link_libraries(rlimgui PRIVATE imgui raylib) target_include_directories(rlimgui INTERFACE ${rlimgui_SOURCE_DIR}) endfunction()

  • slate

    Beautiful static documentation for your API

    • Project mention: 10+ API Documentation Tools For Super Busy Developers 👩‍💻 | dev.to | 2023-08-16

    Slate (Free)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • insomnia

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

    • Project mention: Building a RESTful API with Node.js and Express | dev.to | 2024-04-08

    Use tools like Postman or Insomnia to test the API endpoints and ensure they behave as expected.

  • trpc

    🧙‍♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.

    • Project mention: Key differences between GraphQL and RESTful API | dev.to | 2023-11-09

    RESTful API: RESTful API does not have machine-readable metadata cacheable, and query validation is not available.(There are some libraraies tried to solve this issue like TRPC)

  • httpie

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

    • Project mention: Personas - an Ai Assistant | dev.to | 2024-04-14

    tested the end points using httpie and sometime curl

  • ccxt

    A JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / C# / PHP cryptocurrency trading API with support for more than 100 bitcoin/altcoin exchanges

    • Project mention: JavaScript Libraries for Implementing Trendy Technologies in Web Apps in 2024 | dev.to | 2024-04-09

    CCXT

  • Hasura

    Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on your DB with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

    • Project mention: Ask HN: How Can I Make My Front End React to Database Changes in Real-Time? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

    [4] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/architecture/live-queries.md

  • SWR

    React Hooks for Data Fetching

    • Project mention: Best Next.js Libraries and Tools in 2024 | dev.to | 2024-04-10

    Link: https://swr.vercel.app/

  • django-rest-framework

    Web APIs for Django. 🎸

    • Project mention: Ask HN: Is Python async/await some kind of joke? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-27

    - Django Rest Framework has no async support? https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/7260

  • Directus

    The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.

    • Project mention: Headless CMS: Directus vs Payload vs Strapi in 2024 | dev.to | 2024-04-05

    As of April 2024, Directus' GitHub repository has accumulated 25.2k stars and 3.5k forks, showcasing its active community. The project has secured $8+ million in funding, further fueling its growth and development.

  • Medusa

    Building blocks for digital commerce

    • Project mention: How to build an eCommerce website and integrating Email notification only using open source tools | dev.to | 2024-02-01

    You can learn more about Medusa by checking their GitHub repository.

  • api-guidelines

    Microsoft REST API Guidelines

    • Project mention: Mastering API Design: 26 Resources for Software Engineers | dev.to | 2023-12-20

    📝 "Microsoft REST API Guidelines" [link]

  • postgrest

    REST API for any Postgres database

    • Project mention: Supabase – General Availability Week | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-15

    hey hn, supabase ceo her

    we just announced GA, after ~4 years of beta. for those who don't know: supabase is a postgres hosting company. we also host other open source "backend" tools that make it easy to get started with postgres (tools like PostgREST for auto-generate APIs [0])

    we owe a lot to the HN community. you launched us 4 years ago [1], when we were just a few developers. since then HN has been a staple in our journey, one of the best sources of product feedback [2]

    the GA badge is mostly to signify organizational readiness. we're at a stage where we can take any profile of customer. we have a support team that works 24/7, and a success team that will help customers improve their postgres usage. we released our Index Advisor [3] yesterday, and we'll be releasing a few more products this week that helps customer with performance and security.

    on a personal note: i read HN most days, and love going through the ShowHN's to see what devs are building. thanks for being an awesome community and my favorite place to lurk on the internet. i'll stick around to answer any questions

    [0] PostgREST: https://postgrest.org

    [1] Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901

    [2] HN journey: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

    [3] Index Advisor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028111

  • API-Security-Checklist

    Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

  • openapi-generator

    OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

    • Project mention: The Stainless SDK Generator | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-24

    Disclaimer: We're an early adopter of Stainless at Mux.

    I've spent more of my time than I'd like to admit managing both OpenAPi spec files [1] and fighting with openapi-generator [2] than any sane person should have to. While it's great having the freedom to change the templates an thus generated SDKs you get with using that sort of approach, it's also super time consuming, and when you have a lot of SDKs (we have 6 generated SDKs), in my experience it needs someone devoted to managing the process, staying up with template changes etc.

    Excited to see more SDK languages come to Stainless!

    [1] https://www.mux.com/blog/an-adventure-in-openapi-v3-api-code...

    [2] https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator

  • LocalAI

    :robot: The free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. Self-hosted, community-driven and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more models architectures. It allows to generate Text, Audio, Video, Images. Also with voice cloning capabilities.

    • Project mention: Drop-In Replacement for ChatGPT API | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-24

  • web3.js

    Collection of comprehensive TypeScript libraries for Interaction with the Ethereum JSON RPC API and utility functions.

    • Project mention: Projects to contribute to | /r/ethdev | 2023-12-06

    Web3.js (16500 GitHub Stars) https://github.com/web3/web3.js/

  • chi

    lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

    • Project mention: Deploy a Golang serverless function for a demo form with htmx | dev.to | 2024-03-30

    I use go-chi for handling routes and to server static file(stylesheet).

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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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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Project Stars
1 public-apis 291,561
2 neovim 76,465
3 fastapi 70,779
4 Postwoman 59,976
5 Strapi 59,840
6 imgui 55,717
7 slate 35,827
8 insomnia 33,036
9 trpc 32,572
10 httpie 31,760
11 ccxt 31,291
12 Hasura 30,799
13 SWR 29,383
14 django-rest-framework 27,461
15 Directus 25,357
16 Medusa 22,892
17 api-guidelines 22,379
18 postgrest 22,103
19 API-Security-Checklist 21,971
20 openapi-generator 19,807
21 LocalAI 19,033
22 web3.js 18,743
23 chi 17,050

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