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
We’ve added a new command, httpie plugins, to help you manage (install/uninstall/list) plugins. It also solves a long-standing plugins-related issue with non-pip installations (e.g., via Homebrew) and it's a potential place for many new features to come. (#1200)
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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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Project mention: Moving from Webflow, which platform should I use? | reddit.com/r/webdev | 2021-11-29
A lot of people I know are using https://strapi.io/ haven't tried it much myself yet.
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FastApi - Modern python web framework for building APIs. It's based on Pydantic and type hints to validate, serialize, and deserialize data, and automatically auto-generate OpenAPI documents
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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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refine uses React Query for data processing, caching, and state management. In this respect, you do not need to define anything extra for every cases and model.
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Project mention: I have a django server and a nodejs express server, how can I share a django session between both of them? | reddit.com/r/learnjavascript | 2021-11-22
Django can store session data in a http-only cookie. If your node server has the same origin, it could be able to read the info from the cookie potentially. But it may be simpler to just expose an http endpoint on the Django side (perhaps using django-rest-framework) for the Node server to call, that returns whether the session is still valid. Then you could just use the utilities for authentication that already come with Django instead of trying to reproduce them in Node.
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ccxt
A JavaScript / Python / PHP cryptocurrency trading API with support for more than 100 bitcoin/altcoin exchanges
Project mention: Can someone please send a GitHub link to a FinTech related project? I want to know if it’s the type of code I’d enjoy writing 😊 | reddit.com/r/fintech | 2021-11-26 -
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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: Reddit API state/scope parameter required in authorization request? | reddit.com/r/redditdev | 2021-11-24
redirect url: https://insomnia.rest (doesn't really matter AFAIK)
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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.
"Complex" is subjective... I really like https://directus.io , rest and graphql out of the box and sane DB schema, so you're not locked into it forever.
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Often overlooked, never even heard of until now, JSDoc deserves more attention, as it brings a lot of advantages out of some short lines of documentation.
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Brain.js - Machine-learning framework.
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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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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!
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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 | 48,917 |
| 3 | Strapi | 41,168 |
| 4 | fastapi | 38,806 |
| 5 | Postwoman | 33,993 |
| 6 | slate | 33,385 |
| 7 | react-query | 23,971 |
| 8 | django-rest-framework | 22,289 |
| 9 | ccxt | 22,129 |
| 10 | normalizr | 20,667 |
| 11 | SWR | 19,980 |
| 12 | insomnia | 18,787 |
| 13 | api-guidelines | 17,855 |
| 14 | API-Security-Checklist | 16,256 |
| 15 | learn-anything | 13,484 |
| 16 | Directus | 12,872 |
| 17 | JSDoc | 12,513 |
| 18 | Brain.js | 12,339 |
| 19 | web3.js | 12,198 |
| 20 | Spree Commerce | 11,532 |
| 21 | postgraphile | 10,874 |
| 22 | micro | 10,710 |
| 23 | openapi-generator | 10,478 |
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