Why do you need an API management system

So far, as the developer camp, we have proved with practice that the development mode of front and back end separation is gradually becoming the way for more and more Internet companies to build services and applications.

There are many advantages of front-end and back-end separation, one of which is very important: for background services (systems), it only needs to provide a unified API interface, which can be reused by multiple clients, and the division of labor and collaboration is refined, greatly improving efficiency.

Some of the side effects are:

  • Interface document management is chaotic. Before, many companies used to manage API interfaces, including Wiki, Word documents and Html, but often encountered problems because the interface was changed, such as adding parameters, changing parameter names, and deleting parameters, etc., and the documents were not updated in time

  • Interface testing is not guaranteed. After all, front-end development depends on back-end interfaces. If front-end and back-end development is not synchronized, timely testing of interfaces becomes a problem. Therefore, a set of API interface data testing services should be provided at any time.

  • Resources are scattered and difficult to share. Each developer maintains his own set of test interfaces, but cannot share the set of others’ interfaces. The development process is filled with a large number of repetitive data and interface filling work, which is not high efficiency

  • Other questions. In addition, there are a number of issues such as document export, interface classification planning, operation convenience and so on.

Based on this situation, the following article will recommend several commonly used API management systems to help improve the efficiency and reliability of the front-end separation development mode, there is always one you like!

1、 YApi 

YApi is an efficient, easy-to-use, powerful API management platform, which aims to provide more elegant interface management services for developers, products and testers. It makes it easy for developers to create, publish, and maintain apis. In addition, YApi also provides excellent interactive experience for users. Developers only need to use the platform to provide interface data writing tools and simple click operations to achieve interface management

Features:

  • Define the structure and documentation of the data returned by the interface based on Json5 and Mockjs, making it multiple times more efficient

  • The flat permission design ensures the management of large-scale enterprise-level projects and the ease of use

  • Interface debugging like Postman

  • Automated testing with support for Response assertion

  • MockServer, in addition to supporting regular random mocks, adds mock expectations, which return expected data based on set request filtering rules

  • Support postman, HAR, Swagger data import

  • Free, open source, Intranet deployment, information is no longer afraid to leak

Project home page: http://yapi.demo.qunar.com/


2,eolinker

Eolinker is also very good to use, the UI looks good, is an out-of-the-box API development management scheme, 0 code to achieve API automation testing.

Features:

  • Out of the box API development management solution: no tedious configuration, support to read code annotations to generate API documents, or through the UI interface to quickly create a comprehensive API document. Make your team more agile with Mock apis, API change notifications, version management, and more.

  • Powerful “code 0” API testing/automated testing: fully supports HTTPS, Restful, And Web Service apis. Powerful API automated testing and use case management functions, let you do not write code to achieve API automated testing, real-time generation of test reports, improve test coverage.

  • Practical team collaboration function: provides powerful personnel authority management function, you can set up for different members to be allowed to perform the operation, the system will automatically record all operation logs of members. The existing system functions can be extended through a rich plug-in system.

  • Open platform design: One-click import Postman, Swagger and other product data, so that you can quickly enjoy the services of EOLINKER API Studio. You can also connect EOLINKER API Studio to various enterprise internal systems through the Open API to achieve integration of development, testing, operation and maintenance.

  • Support offline private deployment: EOLINKER API Studio supports offline private deployment, products and data are stored in the enterprise, you can set up isolated workspace by department/branch, and connect to Jenkins and other continuous integration systems through Open API.

Project home page: https://www.eolinker.com/


Three,ShowDoc

ShowDoc is an online document sharing tool perfect for IT teams to speed up communication between teams. Free and open!

Supports the following features:

  • API documentation: With the development of mobile Internet, BaaS (Back end as a Service) is becoming more and more popular. The server side provides API, APP side or web front end can easily call data. ShowDoc makes it very easy and quick to write beautiful API documentation.

  • Data dictionary: A good data dictionary can easily explain the structure of your database to others, such as the definitions of individual fields.

  • Documentation: You can use ShowDoc to write documentation for some of the tools, as well as technical specifications that the team can refer to

  • Project homepage: https://www.showdoc.cc/


Four,Yi file

The last easy text file also supports a variety of custom document editors, from requirements documents, API documents, deployment documents to user manuals. It also supports online testing of interfaces, one-click generation of documents, invocation of samples, and mock configurations.

Project homepage: https://easydoc.xyz/