Ask HN: What apps do you use for API development?

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I’ve been a developer at a couple large companies and have noticed that a lot of my job has just been creating/exposing apis to various different organizations throughout the company. I feel like a lot of the api development process could be automated. Does anyone else feel this way? I’m also curious to know if there any existing solutions to this in the market

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Postman or Insomnia for developing APIs, then try to stick to the OpenAPI specification which will allow using a whole ecosystem of tools https://openapi.tools/ From code generators, documention generators, testing and validation tools.

(OpenAPI used to be called swagger, some tools still use the old name)

Oh nice! Have u had any experience with a no code tool to generate an open api compliant endpoint given some database call? I’ve been trying to find something that would help reduce the amount of time I spend writing boilerplate code

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