Insomnia is a REST API Client and Design tool. Insomnia Inso is a command-line tool for enabling automated testing and API management. Functional API testing is a main component. Some people don't like how much ram or disk space it uses. Let's review some top Insomnia API Client alternatives in these categories: Installation Type and User …
API Design
Top 8 Best API Clients
What Are the Best API Clients? With so many options, it's easy to find yourself with a paradox of choice when choosing software. Indeed, this is the case with API clients. Furthermore, best is a relative term. What you are looking for—knowing my search experience—is the most value for the time and money you're willing to invest. And we derive …
API Architecture: Components and Best Practices for Building Robust APIs
APIs represent a significant part of any web-enabled software. With the rise of the "as-a-service" model of software delivery, APIs also offer a consistent pattern for building modular and scalable systems. Therefore, we are witnessing a radical shift in the evolution of software architecture. Instead of embedding a bunch of APIs within, entire …
How to Design an API
Introduction This article will take you through how to design a web-based RESTful API with the OpenAPI Specification. Then, we'll have the option to take the file specification and use it to continue to design and collaborate on our API. Furthermore, this article is a sibling article of Best Practices and Principles for API Design. The two pair …
Best Practices and Principles for API Design
Introduction APIs are created in ways that redefine and stretch products, services, and organizations. Many businesses have asked themselves questions, like: How can we get more modularity? How do we take advantage of new tools and technology? Are we able to scale our infrastructure? How do we know that we're doing it …
API Design
What is API Design? API design is the process of constructing the blueprint for your API. You have the goals, objectives, and hopes for your API on sticky-notes, in emails, or in requirements. Now, you need to pull all that scattered information together into an informative representation of the result. Good API designs anticipate questions and …
Top 9 Best API Design Tools
Introduction “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton There has been an explosion of available tooling that emerged from cloud computing's growth almost a decade ago. Developers pressing forward to do things better, make things cooler, or slick. The benefit for …
Welcoming Paw to the RapidAPI Family!
I am excited to announce that Rapid has joined forces with the team behind leading API design solution Paw and are adding it into the RapidAPI platform as RapidAPI Design. Together, we will offer a more tightly integrated workflow from designing and developing APIs with Paw, to testing and monitoring them with RapidAPI Testing, to sharing and …
Top 5 Best SoapUI Alternatives
SoapUI is an open-source API testing tool billed as the "World's Most Popular". It has a graphical interface that helps to build tests easily. But every feature described in the SoapUI documentation is like a teaser. Premium features get attention while free features pale in comparison. This is used to get people to pay for ReadyAPI (the paid …
Top 4 Katalon Alternatives
Introduction to Katalon Katalon has a complete suite of solutions targeted for web, mobile, and desktop application testing. The Katalon Studio is their flagship test automation IDE. It also supports API testing for ensuring robust testing for functional as well as several non-functional test scenarios. The API testing solution provided by …
REST API Best Practices for REST API Developers
Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs are a way to connect apps and websites to information on servers. The REST API architecture makes it simple for developers to request stored data or add new entries to a database. Because these structures have become so common in web development, it is helpful to learn and use REST API best practices when …
What is API Design? API Design Best Practices and Principals for APIs
Before any development is made on any structure or even product, there must be a well-established plan and well-informed decisions to ensure the product produces the desired functionalities. These decisions and plans make up the design process. Therefore, significant design decisions and planning lead to better outcomes. APIs are no different …
Insomnia vs. Postman vs. Paw
API Clients The market for API clients (aka REST Clients) is growing. Competition has forced many providers to give their users more features, easier workflows, and lower prices. This is great for developers that are looking to improve their API testing, descriptions, and integrations. The caveat is the difficulty in finding the right API client …
How To Use an API (The Complete Guide) [A Simple API Example]
What is an API and How Do They Work? In the process of improving your applications, you will eventually come across a term like API. API stands for Application Programming Interface. It is impossible to imagine modern development without APIs. This term has many definitions, but we will try to explain it as simple as possible. API is like …
How to Create Your Own RESTful API (20+ Tutorials by Programming Language)
Creating your own RESTful API can be a great way to build a business around data you've collected or a service you've created, or it can just be a fun personal project that allows you to learn a new skill. Here’s a list of 20 tutorials on how to design your own REST API! This list has been sorted by the programming language used in the …