awesome-rest

A collaborative list of great resources about RESTful API architecture, development, test, and performance
https://github.com/eric-erki/awesome-rest

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Testing
- Querying
  - HTTP Prompt - HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit.
  - Postman REST Client - Chrome extension essential to test manually REST API.
  - ExtendsClass - Make HTTP requests with a simple web-based HTTP client.
  - Http-console - Command line interface for HTTP that let you *speak HTTP like a local*
  - Postman REST Client - Chrome extension essential to test manually REST API.
  - Insomnia - Cross-platform HTTP and GraphQL Client
  - resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh).
  - jq - Command line JSON processor, to use in combination with a command-line HTTP client like cURL.
  - rest-assured - Java DSL for easy testing of REST services.
  - httpie - Command line HTTP client, far more dev-friendly than `curl`.
- Public REST APIs To Use In Tests
  - Public APIS - Explore The Largest API Directory In The Galaxy.
  - ProgrammableWeb - The world's largest API repository.
  - Public APIS - Explore The Largest API Directory In The Galaxy.
  - Deck of Cards API - Open API for simulating a deck of cards.
  - Marvel Comics API - Query characters, stories, events about Marvel superheroes.
  - JSON Placeholder - Free online REST service that you can use whenever you need some fake data.
  - APIs.guru - Wikipedia for Web APIs, each API has OpenAPI/Swagger description.
- Mocking
  - Swagger API Mock - Mock RESTful API based on swagger schema
  - httpbin - HTTP request and response service - a/k/a Swiss Army Knife for HTTP.
  - FakeRest - Patch XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API client-side.
  - json-server - Serve a REST API from fixture files using quick prototyping.
  - Request Baskets - Service to collect HTTP requests and inspect them via RESTful API or web UI.
  - DuckRails - Mock quickly & dynamically API endpoints.
SaaS Tools
- Public REST APIs To Use In Tests
  - Runscope - Automated API Monitoring & Testing.
  - Ping-API - Automated API Monitoring & Testing.
  - import.io Magic - Create a REST API from any website in one click.
  - Apiary - Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing.
  - Amazon API Gateway - 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.
  - Beeceptor - An HTTP inspecting, mocking and proxing service. Gives named endpoints for creating mock API endpoints and simulate responses.
  - Apigee - Apigee is the leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers.
Design
- HTTP API design guide extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API
- API-Security-Checklist - Best practices about REST API security
- How to design a REST API? - Full guide tackling security, pagination, filtering, versioning, partial answers, CORS, etc.
- How to GET a cup of coffee
- REST API Tutorial - 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.
- HATEOAS - Clear explanation on what HATEOAS is, and why you should use it.
- Microsoft REST API Guidelines - The Microsoft REST API Guidelines, as a design principle, encourages application developers to have resources accessible to them via a RESTful HTTP interface.
Miscellaneous
- Public REST APIs To Use In Tests
  - ng-admin - Add an AngularJS admin GUI to any RESTful API.
  - react-admin - Add a ReactJS admin GUI to any RESTful API.
  - swagger-codegen - Auto generation of client libraries or server stubs given an OpenAPI specification (formerly known as the Swagger Specification).
  - Lumber - Generate the admin interface of your application.
Servers
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  - MySQL HTTP plugin - Simple REST-like / CRUD server for any MySQL database.
  - MySQL HTTP plugin - Simple REST-like / CRUD server for any MySQL database.
  - pREST - A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database written in Go.
- PHP
  - lakion/Lionframe - Glu between several community libraries to ease API development.
  - Fusio - Open source API management platform.
  - FOSRestBundle - Bundle handling view, routing, error handling, etc. for your REST API.
  - lakion/Lionframe - Glu between several community libraries to ease API development.
  - Hateoas - PHP library to support implementing representations for HATEOAS REST web services.
  - stanlemon/rest-bundle - Build a REST API based on Doctrine entities using conventions over configuration.
  - BazingaHateoasBundle - Integrate the [Hateoas](https://github.com/willdurand/Hateoas) library into a Symfony2 application.
  - Symfony REST Edition - Start with a Symfony2 application with all REST-friendly bundles pre-configured.
  - NgAdminGeneratorBundle - Boostrap ng-admin configuration based on `stanlemon/rest-bundle`.
  - API Platform - Specialize Symfony edition for the creation of hypermedia REST APIs.
  - NelmioApiDocBundle - Generate documentation for your REST API from annotations.
  - REST APIs with Symfony2: the Right Way - Complete guide to build a state-of-the-art REST API with Symfony2 framework.
  - DunglasApiBundle - Build a REST API which follow Hydra/JSON-LD specification.
  - Microrest - Micro-web application providing a REST API on top of any relational database.
  - Negotiation - Content negotiation library.
  - Drest - Library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
  - Restler - Lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
  - HAL - Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
  - Apigility - API builder built with Zend Framework 2.
  - phprest - Specialized REST microframework for PHP.
- Python
  - django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
  - savory-pie - REST API building library (django, and others).
  - django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
  - hug - Lightweight and fast API Framework.
  - sandman - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
  - Flask-Potion - Flask-Potion is a powerful Flask extension for building RESTful JSON APIs. It also provides several Clients for easier access to the API.
  - apistar - A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3.
  - Falcon - Falcon is a bare-metal Python web API framework for building high-performance microservices, app backends, and higher-level frameworks.
  - Python Eve - 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.
  - Ramses - Makes RAML files executable by generating production-ready APIs from them at runtime.
- Node.js
  - node-restify - Framework specifically meant for REST API.
  - mers - Express service exposing Mongoose finders as RESTful API.
  - flatiron/resourceful - Isomorphic Resource engine for JavaScript.
  - Expressa - Express middleware for creating APIs from JSON schemas with a simple admin editor and permissions model.
  - rest-hapi - Generate RESTful API based on mongoose models that supports relational data.
  - Nestjsx/crud - Generate CRUD controllers and services for RESTful API with NestJS and TypeORM.
- Go
  - gocrud
  - Goat - Minimalistic REST API server in Go.
  - go-relax - Framework of pluggable components to build RESTful API's.
  - Zerver - Zerver is a expressive, modular, feature completed RESTful framework.
  - go-json-rest - Thin layer on top of `net/http` that helps building RESTful APIs easily.
  - sleepy - RESTful micro-framework written in Go.
  - go-rest - Small and evil REST framework for Go.
  - go-restful - A declarative highly readable framework for building restful API's.
  - Resoursea - REST framework for quickly writing resource based services.
- Ruby
  - Rails - RailsGuides: Using Rails for API-only applications.
- Haskell
  - Rest for Haskell - 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.
- Java
  - RestExpress - Netty-based, highly performant, lightweight, container-less, plugin-extensible, framework that is ideal for microservice architectures.
  - Vertx-Web - 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.
  - Dropwizard - A framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services.
Standards
- Hydra - Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs (W3C).
- JSend - Simple specification that lays down some rules for how JSON responses from web servers should be formatted.
- HAL - Simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between resources in your API (see: [HATEOAS](#hateoas)).
- OpenAPI - Formerly known as the Swagger Specification, OpenAPI specifcation is the world’s most popular description format for defining Restful APIs.
Clients
- Ruby Clients
  - excon - 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.
  - raml-ruby-client-generator - Auto generate API client from a RAML file.
  - Net::HTTP - Net::HTTP provides a rich library which can be used to build HTTP user-agents.
  - RESTClient - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
  - Spyke - Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner.
  - httparty - Makes HTTP fun again!
- Go Clients
  - gopencils - Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs.
  - resty - Simple HTTP and REST client for Go inspired by Ruby rest-client.
- PHP Clients
  - Buzz - Another lightweight HTTP client.
  - Guzzle - HTTP client and framework for consuming RESTful web services.
- JavaScript Clients
  - traverson - A Hypermedia API/HATEOAS Client for Node.js and the Browser
  - raml-client-generator - Generates static client libs for js.
  - restangular - AngularJS service to handle REST API properly and easily.
  - restful.js - JS client for interacting with server-side RESTful resources.
- Node.js Clients
  - unirest for Node.js - Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
  - restler - REST client library for node.js.
API Gateway
- Public REST APIs To Use In Tests
  - API Umbrella - API management platform for exposing web services, with web interface and analytics, written in Lua.
  - WSO2 API Management - API management tool with lightweight gateway and API lifecycle manangement, written in Java.
  - Express Gateway - Microservices API Gateway built on top of ExpressJS (Node.js).
  - KrakenD
  - Kong - Scalable, distributed, and plugin oriented API gateway backed by Nginx.
  - Tyk API Gateway - Lightweight API gateway with analytics logging, written in Go.
Documentation
- Public REST APIs To Use In Tests
  - API doc - Inline Documentation for RESTful web APIs.
  - ReDoc - OpenAPI/Swagger-powered three-panel documentation.
  - raml2html - Generates HTML documentation from a RAML file.
  - Slate - Beautiful and responsive three-panel API documentation using Middleman.

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