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<h1 id="awesome-rest-awesome">Awesome REST <a
href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome"><img
src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg"
alt="Awesome" /></a></h1>
<p>A collaborative list of great resources about RESTful API
architecture, development, test, and performance. Feel free to
contribute to this on-going list.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#design">Design</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#guidelines">Guidelines</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#standards">Standards</a></li>
<li><a href="#clients">Clients</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#php-clients">PHP</a></li>
<li><a href="#javascript-clients">Client-side JavaScript</a></li>
<li><a href="#nodejs-clients">Node.js</a></li>
<li><a href="#ruby-clients">Ruby</a></li>
<li><a href="#go-clients">Go</a></li>
<li><a href="#net-clients">.Net</a></li>
<li><a href="#generators">Generators</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#servers">Servers</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#directly-on-top-of-a-rmdb">Directly On Top Of A
RMDB</a></li>
<li><a href="#nodejs">Node.js</a></li>
<li><a href="#php">PHP</a></li>
<li><a href="#symfony2">Symfony2</a></li>
<li><a href="#python">Python</a></li>
<li><a href="#ruby">Ruby</a></li>
<li><a href="#go">Go</a></li>
<li><a href="#java">Java</a></li>
<li><a href="#haskell">Haskell</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#testing">Testing</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#querying">Querying</a></li>
<li><a href="#mocking">Mocking</a></li>
<li><a href="#public-rest-apis-to-use-in-tests">Public REST APIs To Use
In Tests</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="#api-gateway">API Gateway</a></li>
<li><a href="#saas-tools">SaaS Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="#miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="design">Design</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm">Architectural
Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures</a> - Roy
Fielding’s dissertation defining REST</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design">HTTP API
design guide extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api">Best
Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.octo.com/en/design-a-rest-api/">How to design
a REST API?</a> - Full guide tackling security, pagination, filtering,
versioning, partial answers, CORS, etc.</li>
<li><a
href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html">Richardson
Maturity Model</a> - Explained by Martin Fowler, originally presented by
Leonard Richardson at the <a
href="https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2008-QCon/act3.html">QCon
2008</a>.</li>
<li><a
href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/enterpriseREST.html">Enterprise
Integration Using REST</a> - Discusses the constraints and flexibility
that you have with nonpublic APIs, and lessons learned from doing large
scale RESTful integration across multiple teams.</li>
<li><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201111235328/timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas">HATEOAS</a>
- Clear explanation on what HATEOAS is, and why you should use it.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/webber-rest-workflow/">How
to GET a cup of coffee</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.restapitutorial.com/">REST API Tutorial</a> -
RestApiTutorial.com is dedicated to tracking REST API best practices and
making resources available to enable quick reference and self education
for the development crafts-person.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist">API-Security-Checklist</a>
- Best practices about REST API security</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="guidelines">Guidelines</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/adidas/api-guidelines/blob/master/rest-api-guidelines/rest.md">Adidas
REST API Guidelines</a> - Adidas REST API Guidelines define standards
and guidelines for building REST APIs at adidas.</li>
<li><a
href="https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/atlassian-rest-api-design-guidelines-version-1/">Atlassian
REST API design guidelines version 1</a> - This document provides
guidelines to Atlassian developers who are designing REST APIs for
Atlassian applications.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/api-design-guide">Cisco REST
API Guide</a> - Guidelines for designing REST APIs at Cisco.</li>
<li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/">Google Cloud API
design guide</a> - Guidelines Google follows when designing Cloud APIs
and other Google APIs (REST APIs and gRPC APIs).</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Haufe-Lexware/api-style-guide">Haufe API
Style Guide</a> - Guidelines created by Haufe-Lexware CTO team.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#readme">Microsoft
REST API Guidelines</a> - The Microsoft REST API Guidelines, as a design
principle, encourages application developers to have resources
accessible to them via a RESTful HTTP interface.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/zalando/restful-api-guidelines">Restful
API Guidelines by Zalando</a> - Developing Restful APIs: A Comprehensive
Set of Guidelines.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="standards">Standards</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://jsonapi.org/">JSON API</a> - Standard for building
APIs in JSON.</li>
<li><a href="https://raml.org/">RAML</a> - Simple and succinct way to
describe RESTful API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/omniti-labs/jsend">JSend</a> - Simple
specification that lays down some rules for how JSON responses from web
servers should be formatted.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.odata.org/">OData</a> - Open protocol to allow
the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful
APIs. Quite complex.</li>
<li><a
href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-06">HAL</a> -
Simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between
resources in your API.</li>
<li><a href="https://json-ld.org/">JSON-LD</a> - Standard for describing
Linked Data and hypermedia relations in JSON (W3C).</li>
<li><a href="https://www.hydra-cg.com/">Hydra</a> - Vocabulary for
Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs (W3C).</li>
<li><a href="https://schema.org">Schema.org</a> - Collection of schemas
describing common data models.</li>
<li><a href="https://openapis.org/">OpenAPI</a> - Formerly known as the
Swagger Specification, OpenAPI specifcation is the world’s most popular
description format for defining Restful APIs.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="clients">Clients</h2>
<h3 id="php-clients">PHP Clients</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://guzzle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">Guzzle</a> -
HTTP client and framework for consuming RESTful web services.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kriswallsmith/buzz">Buzz</a> - Another
lightweight HTTP client.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Mashape/unirest-php">unirest for PHP</a>
- Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="javascript-clients">JavaScript Clients</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mgonto/restangular">restangular</a> -
AngularJS service to handle REST API properly and easily.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/marmelab/restful.js">restful.js</a> - JS
client for interacting with server-side RESTful resources.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/basti1302/traverson">traverson</a> - A
Hypermedia API/HATEOAS Client for Node.js and the Browser</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/mulesoft/raml-client-generator">raml-client-generator</a>
- Generates static client libs for js.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="node.js-clients">Node.js Clients</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/danwrong/restler">restler</a> - REST
client library for node.js.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Mashape/unirest-nodejs">unirest for
Node.js</a> - Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="ruby-clients">Ruby Clients</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client">RESTClient</a>
- Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework
syntax for specifying actions.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/balvig/spyke">Spyke</a> - Interact with
REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/excon/excon">excon</a> - Usable, fast,
simple Ruby HTTP 1.1. It works great as a general HTTP(s) client and is
particularly well suited to usage in API clients.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty">httparty</a> -
Makes HTTP fun again!</li>
<li><a
href="https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.0/stdlibs/net/Net/HTTP.html">Net::HTTP</a>
- Net::HTTP provides a rich library which can be used to build HTTP
user-agents.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/zlx/raml-ruby-client-generator">raml-ruby-client-generator</a>
- Auto generate API client from a RAML file.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="go-clients">Go Clients</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bndr/gopencils">gopencils</a> - Small
and simple package to easily consume REST APIs.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/go-resty/resty">resty</a> - Simple HTTP
and REST client for Go inspired by Ruby rest-client.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="net-clients">.NET Clients</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/restsharp/RestSharp">RestSharp</a> -
Simple REST and HTTP API client for .NET</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/reactiveui/refit">Refit</a> - The
automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET</li>
<li><a href="https://flurl.dev">Flurl</a> - Fluent, portable, testable
REST/HTTP client library</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/canton7/RestEase">RestEase</a> -
Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library, which is simple and
customisable. Heavily inspired by Refit</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/jgiacomini/Tiny.RestClient">Tiny.RestClient</a>
- Simpliest Fluent REST client for .NET.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/letsar/RestLess">RestLess</a> - The
automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net
Standard.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Respawnsive/Apizr">Apizr</a> -
Refit-based web api client, but resilient (retry, connectivity, cache,
auth, log, priority, etc…).</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="generators">Generators</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator">openapi-generator</a>
- OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK
generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically
given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3).</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="servers">Servers</h2>
<h3 id="directly-on-top-of-a-rmdb">Directly On Top Of A RMDB</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest">postgrest</a> -
Serve a fully RESTful API directly from an existing PostgreSQL
database.</li>
<li><a
href="http://blog.ulf-wendel.de/2014/mysql-5-7-http-plugin-mysql/">MySQL
HTTP plugin</a> - Simple REST-like / CRUD server for any MySQL
database.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/prest/prest">pREST</a> - A fully RESTful
API from any existing PostgreSQL database written in Go.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="node.js">Node.js</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/restify/node-restify">node-restify</a> -
Framework specifically meant for REST API.</li>
<li><a href="https://sailsjs.org/">Sails.js</a> - Node.js Web framework
embedding a command to generate automatically a REST API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jspears/mers">mers</a> - Express service
exposing Mongoose finders as RESTful API.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/flatiron/resourceful">flatiron/resourceful</a>
- Isomorphic Resource engine for JavaScript.</li>
<li><a href="https://loopback.io/">loopback</a> - Powerful Node.js
framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data
sources.</li>
<li><a href="https://feathersjs.com/">Feathers</a> - is a real-time,
micro-service web framework that gives you control over your data via
RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thomas4019/expressa">Expressa</a> -
Express middleware for creating APIs from JSON schemas with a simple
admin editor and permissions model.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/JKHeadley/rest-hapi">rest-hapi</a> -
Generate RESTful API based on mongoose models that supports relational
data.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/nestjsx/crud">Nestjsx/crud</a> -
Generate CRUD controllers and services for RESTful API with NestJS and
TypeORM.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="php">PHP</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/marmelab/microrest.php">Microrest</a> -
Micro-web application providing a REST API on top of any relational
database.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/willdurand/Negotiation">Negotiation</a>
- Content negotiation library.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/leedavis81/drest">Drest</a> - Library
for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Luracast/Restler">Restler</a> -
Lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/blongden/hal">HAL</a> - Hypertext
Application Language (HAL) builder library.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton">Apigility</a> -
API builder built with Zend Framework 2.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/phprest/phprest">phprest</a> -
Specialized REST microframework for PHP.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/willdurand/Hateoas">Hateoas</a> - PHP
library to support implementing representations for HATEOAS REST web
services.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/apioo/fusio">Fusio</a> - Open source API
management platform.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="symfony2">Symfony2</h4>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://williamdurand.fr/2012/08/02/rest-apis-with-symfony2-the-right-way/">REST
APIs with Symfony2: the Right Way</a> - Complete guide to build a
state-of-the-art REST API with Symfony2 framework.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle">FOSRestBundle</a>
- Bundle handling view, routing, error handling, etc. for your REST
API.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/stanlemon/rest-bundle">stanlemon/rest-bundle</a>
- Build a REST API based on Doctrine entities using conventions over
configuration.</li>
<li><a href="http://lakion.com/lionframe">lakion/Lionframe</a> - Glu
between several community libraries to ease API development.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/willdurand/BazingaHateoasBundle">BazingaHateoasBundle</a>
- Integrate the <a
href="https://github.com/willdurand/Hateoas">Hateoas</a> library into a
Symfony2 application.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/gimler/symfony-rest-edition">Symfony
REST Edition</a> - Start with a Symfony2 application with all
REST-friendly bundles pre-configured.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/marmelab/NgAdminGeneratorBundle">NgAdminGeneratorBundle</a>
- Boostrap ng-admin configuration based on
<code>stanlemon/rest-bundle</code>.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/dunglas/DunglasApiBundle">DunglasApiBundle</a>
- Build a REST API which follow Hydra/JSON-LD specification.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform">API
Platform</a> - Specialize Symfony edition for the creation of hypermedia
REST APIs.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle">NelmioApiDocBundle</a>
- Generate documentation for your REST API from annotations.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="powershell">PowerShell</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Badgerati/Pode">Pode</a> - Pode is an
cross-platform, open-source, community-supported web server and REST API
framework for PowerShell developers</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="python">Python</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.django-rest-framework.org/">Django REST
framework</a> - Powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to
build Web APIs.</li>
<li><a href="http://tastypieapi.org/">django-tastypie</a> - Creating
delicious APIs for Django apps.</li>
<li><a href="https://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/">flask-restful</a> -
Extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST
APIs.</li>
<li><a
href="https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">flask-restless</a>
- Flask extension for generating ReSTful APIs for database models
defined with SQLAlchemy (or Flask-SQLAlchemy).</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman">sandman</a> -
Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.</li>
<li><a href="https://restless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">restless</a> -
Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from
TastyPie.</li>
<li><a href="https://python-eve.org/">Python Eve</a> - Eve is an open
source Python REST API framework designed for human beings. It allows to
effortlessly build and deploy highly customizable, fully featured
RESTful Web Services.</li>
<li><a href="https://ramses.readthedocs.org/en/stable/">Ramses</a> -
Makes RAML files executable by generating production-ready APIs from
them at runtime.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/biosustain/potion">Flask-Potion</a> -
Flask-Potion is a powerful Flask extension for building RESTful JSON
APIs. It also provides several Clients for easier access to the
API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/encode/apistar">apistar</a> - A smart
Web API framework, designed for Python 3.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/falconry/falcon">Falcon</a> - Falcon is
a bare-metal Python web API framework for building high-performance
microservices, app backends, and higher-level frameworks.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi">FastAPI</a> - FastAPI
is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs
with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. With automatic API
documentation using Swagger UI and ReDoc, based on OpenAPI and JSON
Schema.</li>
<li><a href="https://zato.io">Zato</a> - Platform for building
server-side integrations, automations and API backends in Python.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="ruby">Ruby</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.ruby-grape.org">Grape</a> - Opinionated
micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.</li>
<li><a href="https://guides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html">Rails</a> -
RailsGuides: Using Rails for API-only applications.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="go">Go</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/manishrjain/gocrud">gocrud</a>: Go
library to simplify creating, updating and deleting arbitrary depth
structured data — to make building REST services fast and easy.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ant0ine/go-json-rest">go-json-rest</a> -
Thin layer on top of <code>net/http</code> that helps building RESTful
APIs easily.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dougblack/sleepy">sleepy</a> - RESTful
micro-framework written in Go.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/yookoala/restit">restit</a> - Go micro
framework to help writing RESTful API integration test.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/codehack/go-relax">go-relax</a> -
Framework of pluggable components to build RESTful API’s.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ungerik/go-rest">go-rest</a> - Small and
evil REST framework for Go.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful">go-restful</a> - A
declarative highly readable framework for building restful API’s.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bahlo/goat">Goat</a> - Minimalistic REST
API server in Go.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/resoursea/api">Resoursea</a> - REST
framework for quickly writing resource based services.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="java">Java</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/RestExpress/RestExpress">RestExpress</a>
- Netty-based, highly performant, lightweight, container-less,
plugin-extensible, framework that is ideal for microservice
architectures.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-web">Vertx-Web</a> -
Vert.x-Web is a set of building blocks for building web applications
with Vert.x, a toolkit for building reactive applications on the
JVM.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard">Dropwizard</a> -
A framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web
services.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="scala">Scala</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mesosphere/chaos">Chaos</a> - A
lightweight framework for writing REST services in Scala.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="haskell">Haskell</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/silkapp/rest">Rest for Haskell</a> -
This package allows you to create REST APIs in Haskell. These APIs can
be run in different web frameworks. They can also be used to
automatically generate documentation as well as client libraries.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="testing">Testing</h2>
<h3 id="querying">Querying</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie">httpie</a> - Command line
HTTP client, far more dev-friendly than <code>curl</code>.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/micha/resty">resty</a> - Little command
line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh).</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/stedolan/jq">jq</a> - Command line JSON
processor, to use in combination with a command-line HTTP client like
cURL.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.httpmaster.net">HttpMaster</a> - GUI tool for
testing REST APIs and services. Windows OS only.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cloudhead/http-console">Http-console</a>
- Command line interface for HTTP that let you <em>speak HTTP like a
local</em></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt">HTTP Prompt</a> -
HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring
autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and
prompt_toolkit.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured">rest-assured</a> -
Java DSL for easy testing of REST services.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia">Insomnia</a> -
Cross-platform HTTP and GraphQL Client</li>
<li><a
href="https://extendsclass.com/rest-client-online.html">ExtendsClass</a>
- Make HTTP requests with a simple web-based HTTP client.</li>
<li><a href="https://testmace.com">TestMace</a> - Cross-platform simple
but powerful IDE for API automation testing.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman">Milkman</a> -
Extensible cross-platform request/response workbench, not only for http
calls.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/schemathesis/schemathesis">Schemathesis</a> -
Property-based testing tool for web applications built with Open API and
GraphQL specifications.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/stepci/stepci">Step CI</a> - Open-source
framework for API Quality Assurance, which tests REST, GraphQL and gRPC
automated and from Open API spec.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/restqa/restqa">RestQA</a> - A REST API
testing Framework based on BDD / Gherkin to manage microservice local
testing.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="mocking">Mocking</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://requestbin.com/">RequestBin</a> - Inspect and debug
webhook requests sent by your clients or third-party APIs.</li>
<li><a href="https://httpbin.org">httpbin</a> - HTTP request and
response service - a/k/a Swiss Army Knife for HTTP.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/marmelab/FakeRest">FakeRest</a> -
Redirect fetch() calls to a client-side fake REST API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/typicode/json-server">json-server</a> -
Serve a REST API from fixture files using quick prototyping.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mocky.io/">Mocky.io</a> - Free online service
to create fake HTTP responses.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mock-server.com/">MockServer</a> - Easy mocking
of any system you integrate with via HTTP or HTTPS.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/darklynx/request-baskets">Request
Baskets</a> - Service to collect HTTP requests and inspect them via
RESTful API or web UI.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/iridakos/duckrails">DuckRails</a> - Mock
quickly &amp; dynamically API endpoints.</li>
<li><a href="https://mockoon.com">Mockoon</a> - Easily create mock APIs
locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source.</li>
<li><a href="https://mockintosh.io/">Mockintosh</a> - A mock server
generator that’s capable to generate RESTful APIs and communicate with
the message queues to mimick asynchronous tasks.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="validating">Validating</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://json-schema.org/">JSON Schema</a> - Declarative
language that allows you to annotate and validate JSON documents</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="public-rest-apis-to-use-in-tests">Public REST APIs To Use In
Tests</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://deckofcardsapi.com">Deck of Cards API</a> - Open
API for simulating a deck of cards.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis">Public APIS</a>
- Explore The Largest API Directory In The Galaxy.</li>
<li><a href="https://developer.marvel.com/">Marvel Comics API</a> -
Query characters, stories, events about Marvel superheroes.</li>
<li><a href="https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/">JSON Placeholder</a>
- Free online REST service that you can use whenever you need some fake
data.</li>
<li><a href="https://APIs.guru">APIs.guru</a> - Wikipedia for Web APIs,
each API has OpenAPI/Swagger description.</li>
<li><a href="https://theCatAPI.com">The Cat API</a> - Public API for
Cats Images, Facts and Jokes.</li>
<li><a href="https://mockae.com/">Mockae</a> - Fake REST API powered by
Lua.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://swagger.io/">Swagger</a> - Documentation/querying
web interface for REST APIs.</li>
<li><a href="https://apidocjs.com/">API doc</a> - Inline Documentation
for RESTful web APIs.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/raml2html/raml2html">raml2html</a> -
Generates HTML documentation from a RAML file.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc/">ReDoc</a> -
OpenAPI/Swagger-powered three-panel documentation.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lord/slate">Slate</a> - Beautiful and
responsive three-panel API documentation using Middleman.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/opticdev/optic">Optic</a> - Maintain an
accurate API specification without writing OpenAPI/Swagger. Works with
any Stack</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="api-gateway">API Gateway</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Kong/kong">Kong</a> - Scalable,
distributed, and plugin oriented API gateway backed by Nginx.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk">Tyk API Gateway</a>
- Lightweight API gateway with analytics logging, written in Go.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/NREL/api-umbrella">API Umbrella</a> -
API management platform for exposing web services, with web interface
and analytics, written in Lua.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/wso2/product-apim">WSO2 API
Management</a> - API management tool with lightweight gateway and API
lifecycle management, written in Java.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ExpressGateway/express-gateway">Express
Gateway</a> - Microservices API Gateway built on top of ExpressJS
(Node.js).</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/devopsfaith/krakend">KrakenD</a> - Ultra
performant API Gateway with middleware. Written in Go.</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/">AWS API Gateway</a> -
Fully managed service that helps developers to create, publish,
maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="saas-tools">SaaS Tools</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango">Nango</a> - Native
integrations framework to consume REST APIs (open-source).</li>
<li><a href="https://www.runscope.com/">Runscope</a> - Automated API
Monitoring &amp; Testing.</li>
<li><a href="https://ping-api.com/">Ping-API</a> - Automated API
Monitoring &amp; Testing.</li>
<li><a href="https://apiary.io/">Apiary</a> - Collaborative design,
instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples,
debugging and automated testing.</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/">Amazon API Gateway</a>
- Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for
developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any
scale.</li>
<li><a href="https://apigee.com">Apigee</a> - Apigee is the leading
provider of API technology and services for enterprises and
developers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.3scale.net/">3scale</a> - Nginx based API
gateway to integrate internal and external API services with 3scale’s
API Management Platform.</li>
<li><a href="https://assertible.com">Assertible</a> - Continuously test
and monitor your APIs after deployments and across environments.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.moesif.com">Moesif</a> - API Analytics for
Debugging, Monitoring, and Usage Tracking for RESTful and GraphQL.</li>
<li><a href="https://beeceptor.com/">Beeceptor</a> - An HTTP inspecting,
mocking and proxing service. Gives named endpoints for creating mock API
endpoints and simulate responses.</li>
<li><a href="https://apitally.io">Apitally</a> - Analytics, request
logging and monitoring for REST APIs with a focus on simplicity and data
privacy.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin">react-admin</a> -
Add a ReactJS admin GUI to any RESTful API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/marmelab/ng-admin">ng-admin</a> - Add an
AngularJS admin GUI to any RESTful API.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen">swagger-codegen</a>
- Auto generation of client libraries or server stubs given an OpenAPI
specification (formerly known as the Swagger Specification).</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ForestAdmin/lumber">Lumber</a> -
Generate the admin interface of your application.</li>
<li><a href="https://linx.software">Linx</a> - Low-code API platform.
Build, debug and host REST APIs</li>
</ul>
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