Top 23 API Open-Source Projects
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httpie
As easy as /aitch-tee-tee-pie/ 🥧 Modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. https://twitter.com/httpie
Here’s a summary of this week’s improvements to the development version of HTTPie for Terminal, which will be part of the upcoming v3.0.0 release.
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Project mention: Is there a way to improve formatting of Markdown documentation for LSP? | reddit.com/r/neovim | 2021-12-07
This apparently was tracked and fixed in https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/13746. However, I'm using Neovim 0.6.0 and get what you see on screenshot
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Scout APM
Scout APM: A developer's best friend. Try free for 14-days. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
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Last year, we introduced a stable Strapi v3 with the role-based access control, draft and publish feature, SSO authentication, and most awaited internationalization. We reached 40 000+ Github stars. We held the first online global user conference StrapiConf, with more than 2,500 live attendees.
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I do with PR, and by strongly recommending the sponsored classes (from testdriven.io in the ads on the doc : https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) for my company, but you're right that I could push harder for official corporate sponsorship.
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Project mention: A Complete Practical Guide on Hoppscotch (By Sankalp Swami) | reddit.com/r/hoppscotch | 2021-11-29
Hoppscotch Website
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Project mention: Slate doc. can get implemented with existing code | reddit.com/r/reactnative | 2021-11-26
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React Query is a prime example of this. We can use the same provider in both development and testing and feed it to different clients within each environment.
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Project mention: How to register users in Django REST framework? | reddit.com/r/codehunter | 2021-12-06
I'm coding a REST API with Django REST framework. The API will be the backend of a social mobile app. After following the tutorial, I can serialise all my models and I am able to create new resources and update them.
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ccxt
A JavaScript / Python / PHP cryptocurrency trading API with support for more than 100 bitcoin/altcoin exchanges
Project mention: Using Apache Airflow ETL to fetch and analyze BTC data | reddit.com/r/Python | 2021-12-01This post explains how to use the CCXT library to grab BTC/USD data from exchanges and create an ETL for data analysis and visualization. It uses the dockerized version of Airflow.
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Redux Toolkit docs do have a page on Normalizing State Shape, and recommend the Normalizr library.
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We will use the library SWR to fetch data, but you can also use fetch directly or a different library like axios.
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Project mention: PAW - Native macOS API Client (similar to Postman) - FREE Personal license (50€ value) | reddit.com/r/macapps | 2021-12-06
Insomnia, the software, is free and opensource under MIT license.
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Project mention: Recommendation reading (books/blogs) for best practices while designing REST APIs | reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs | 2021-09-30
This is a great, thorough and in-depth document from Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md
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API-Security-Checklist
Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API
Project mention: I'm preparing for the interview and I've curated a list of resources that might be helpful for you also. | reddit.com/r/netsecstudents | 2021-11-29 -
Recently it was mostly updating my wiki (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge).
Now, it's working on https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything and picking it up again.
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Directus
Open-Source Data Platform 🐰 — Directus wraps any SQL database with a real-time GraphQL+REST API and an intuitive app for non-technical users.
Project mention: Directus – An Instant App and API for Your SQL Database | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-12-03 -
This still looks plain since we do have IntelliSense but we still have no idea what this plugin does. To add a better description we are going to utilize the jsdoc in our Types file to describe what the feature is for.
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web3[0] the library (to filter out the philosophical BS) is just a way to talk to an Ethereum node.
It is technically interesting, but most definitively over-hyped for a straightforward JSON-RPC client.
Personal Note: Tech aside, I don't like this vision of the web where everything is a transaction with a cost attached to it.
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Brain.js - Machine-learning framework.
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Project mention: Which has the larger dev community in 2021, Spree or Solidus? | reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-11-10
Spree: https://github.com/spree/spree/releases/tag/v4.3.0
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postgraphile
Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get an instant high-performance GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database!
Project mention: GitHub - solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL: GraphQL for Postgres | reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL | 2021-12-04Give that this project looks dead, you should look into Hasura, or postgraphile.
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Project mention: Micro - A distributed cloud operating system | reddit.com/r/opensource | 2021-11-30
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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: How does the community like the fact that Spring 5 goes "reactive" for restful? | reddit.com/r/java | 2021-11-27If you return ResponseEntity (which you will get if you generateyour interface from OpenAPI definitions), you will also need ResponseEntityDecoder.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source API projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | httpie | 52,896 |
| 2 | neovim | 49,150 |
| 3 | Strapi | 41,168 |
| 4 | fastapi | 39,025 |
| 5 | Postwoman | 34,225 |
| 6 | slate | 33,413 |
| 7 | react-query | 24,096 |
| 8 | django-rest-framework | 22,289 |
| 9 | ccxt | 22,261 |
| 10 | normalizr | 20,684 |
| 11 | SWR | 20,113 |
| 12 | insomnia | 18,787 |
| 13 | api-guidelines | 17,855 |
| 14 | API-Security-Checklist | 16,303 |
| 15 | learn-anything | 13,502 |
| 16 | Directus | 12,960 |
| 17 | JSDoc | 12,513 |
| 18 | web3.js | 12,346 |
| 19 | Brain.js | 12,339 |
| 20 | Spree Commerce | 11,537 |
| 21 | postgraphile | 10,911 |
| 22 | micro | 10,731 |
| 23 | openapi-generator | 10,544 |
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