API Development

Tools

The following should be considered as alternatives for Postman.

1. bruno — open source API client similar to Postman, Insomnia and similar tools. Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests.  You can use git or any version control of your choice to collaborate over your API collections.

2. RapidAPI for Mac is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native macOS interface to compose requests, inspect server responses, generate client code and export API definitions.

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dreamhead/moco: Easy Setup Stub Server

• Write your own configuration file to describe your Moco server configuration as follow: (foo.json)

[
  {
    "response" :
      {
        "text" : "Hello, Moco"
      }
  }
]

• Run Moco HTTP server with the configuration file.

java -jar moco-runner-<version>-standalone.jar http -p 12306 -c foo.json

• Now, open your favorite browser to visit http://localhost:12306 and you will see "Hello, Moco".