Show HN: Vyne – Automated API Orchestration
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Vyne itself is platform agnostic, and will work with any HTTP based API (with other integrations planned).
There's a decent SDK for Spring Boot projects, which makes getting started as easy as a couple of annotations. This will be broadening to other platforms shortly.
Happy to answer any questions, and feedback warmly received.
> Does seem to take a lot of work to redefine all the types from the existing services (unless I'm missing something).
The goal is to keep this type of rework minimal-to-none, by leveraging the type data that's already there. In typed languages, if the contracts are well typed, then you're already 90% of the way there.
> Given a rest service output, can't some of these things be auto generated ?
Exactly. For example, Vyne can work with a plain old swagger file, which many services already have. From there, it's a little additional metadata to identify ID's etc.
However, the idea is that getting Vyne working should be much less code than the alternative - which is to write the integration code manually. Also, getting Vyne going is a one-off cost, which should remain robust as the surrounding services change their APIs.
BTW, you can probably simplify the pricing page. Currently there are lot of features in the paid plans without much background info on.
The big challenge is the lack of type data, which makes the upfront plumbing kinda painful.
The ideal setup would be to leverage Typescript's type data to generate the schemas, for those who have written their API's in TS. However, that requires hooking into the compilation phase, and I haven't had time to explore that in anger yet.
I know that getting a great solution for the Node community is really important, I just haven't cracked it yet.
That said, Vyne isn't coupled to Eureka, it's just where I've started. I'll be exploring other discovery platforms & service meshes soon.