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vert-x3/vertx-web

HTTP web applications for Vert.x

Stack

Java React Vite Maven npm

GitHub topics

#client #reactive #server #sockjs #vertx #web

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-14
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 154 open

1,150

stars

Forks: 560
Commits: 4,046 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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raml2html/raml2html

RAML to HTML documentation generator.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#raml #raml-document #raml-tooling #raml2html

Updated: 2022-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,130

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 457 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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canton7/RestEase

Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library for .NET Standard 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.5 and higher, which is simple and customisable. Inspired by Refit

Stack

C# .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-12-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

1,116

stars

Forks: 114
Commits: 665 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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marmelab/shadcn-admin-kit

Component kit to build your Admin app with shadcn/ui

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-05-02
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,093

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 928 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Badgerati/Pode

Pode is a Cross-Platform PowerShell web framework for creating REST APIs, Web Sites, and TCP/SMTP servers

Stack

PowerShell .NET SDK npm pip

GitHub topics

#active-directory #authentication #cross-platform #docker #framework #https

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 89 open

1,058

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 3,222 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

willdurand/Hateoas

A PHP library to support implementing representations for HATEOAS REST web services.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#hateoas #json #php #rest #serializer

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-16
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

1,042

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 648 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

wso2/product-apim

Welcome to the WSO2 API Manager source code! For info on working with the WSO2 API Manager repository and contributing code, click the link below.

AI dev

Stack

Java Flask Maven pip

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #api-management #apis #gateway #microservices #rest

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-11
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 652 open

1,027

stars

Forks: 950
Commits: 12,483 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zatosource/zato

ESB, SOA, REST, APIs and Cloud Integrations in Python

Stack

Python Actix Web Django pytest Cargo Composer Gradle

GitHub topics

#aerospace #airport #api #api-gateway #api-server #automation-framework

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-07
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,014

stars

Forks: 251
Commits: 11,506 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

marmelab/restful.js

A pure JS client for interacting with server-side RESTful resources. Think Restangular without Angular.

Archived

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#frontend #http-client #rest

Updated: 2019-05-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

961

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Kong/unirest-nodejs

Unirest in Node.js: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

Updated: 2025-04-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-17
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

953

stars

Forks: 164
Commits: 216 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RestExpress/RestExpress

Minimalist Java framework for rapidly creating scalable, containerless, RESTful microservices. Ship a production-quality, headless, RESTful API in the shortest time possible. Uses Netty for HTTP, Jackson for JSON, Metrics for metrics, properties files for configuration. Sub-projects and plugins enable, NoSQL, Swagger, Auth0, HAL integration, etc.

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Stack

Java Maven

Updated: 2026-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-04
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 28 open

938

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 969 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

balvig/spyke

Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #api #faraday #json #rest #rest-api

Updated: 2025-11-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

902

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dougblack/sleepy

rest for go

Stack

Updated: 2017-11-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-24
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

669

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 64 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

gimler/symfony-rest-edition

Fork from symfony-standard edition with additional rest features.

Archived

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#composer #php #symfony #symfony-application

Updated: 2017-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-07
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

626

stars

Forks: 122
Commits: 971 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

biosustain/potion

Flask-Potion is a RESTful API framework for Flask and SQLAlchemy, Peewee or MongoEngine

Archived

Stack

Python Flask pip

GitHub topics

#flask #flask-extensions #mongoengine #peewee #sqlalchemy

Updated: 2019-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-22
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 51 open

487

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 384 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

traverson/traverson

A Hypermedia API/HATEOAS Client for Node.js and the Browser

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#hypermedia #hypermedia-client #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

461

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 906 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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marmelab/FakeRest

Patch fetch/XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API server in the browser, based on JSON data.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript React Vite npm

GitHub topics

#client #fetch #frontend #mock #rest #test

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-20
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

456

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 409 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

bndr/gopencils

Easily consume REST APIs with Go (golang)

Stack

Updated: 2019-02-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-06-23
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 8 open

453

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 60 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

thomas4019/expressa

API creation middleware with an admin interface

Stack

JavaScript Express React Vue npm

GitHub topics

#apis #hacktoberfest #middleware #nodejs

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-26
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

452

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton

No description.

Archived

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2020-01-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-09
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 20 open

440

stars

Forks: 114
Commits: 458 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

darklynx/request-baskets

HTTP requests collector to test webhooks, notifications, REST clients and more ...

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#http-requests #qa #rest #rest-api #restful #test-automation

Updated: 2024-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

428

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 381 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

adidas/api-guidelines

adidas group API design guidelines

Stack

npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#adidas #adidas-group #api #architecture #async-api #asynchronous

Updated: 2025-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

404

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

silkapp/rest

Packages for defining APIs, running them, generating client code and documentation.

Stack

Haskell

Updated: 2018-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-06-26
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 50 open

386

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 826 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

flatiron/resourceful

an isomorphic Resource engine for JavaScript

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2015-01-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-22
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

354

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 350 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jspears/mers

Mongoose Express Rest Service

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

Updated: 2015-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

343

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 207 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

manishrjain/gocrud

Go framework to simplify CRUD of structured data using Graph operations

Stack

Updated: 2019-03-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

307

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 145 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

phprest/phprest

REST-like PHP micro-framework.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2020-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

302

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

willdurand/BazingaHateoasBundle

Integration of the Hateoas library into Symfony.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

296

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

d2iq-archive/chaos

A lightweight framework for writing REST services in Scala.

Archived

Stack

Scala

GitHub topics

#dcos #dcos-orchestration-guild

Updated: 2019-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-25
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 12 open

249

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 224 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Haufe-Lexware/api-style-guide

Haufe API Style Guide

GitHub topics

#api #hypermedia #styleguide

Updated: 2023-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-13
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 21 open

246

stars

Forks: 79
Commits: 135 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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