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How to easily create and host your own REST API without writing a single line of code

Yogesh Chavan on October 16, 2020

Introduction In this article, you will see how to easily create your own REST API server to be accessible on the internet without coding...

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Shubhadip Bhowmik • Dec 19 '23

Insightful

Yogesh Chavan • Dec 20 '23

Glad to hear that. Thank you🙏

Mohammad Shohag • Nov 3 '22

nice

Yogesh Chavan • Nov 3 '22

Thank you 🙏

Liyas Thomas • Nov 28 '20

Feel free to use open source Postman alternative: Hoppscotch for testing APIs on-the-go directly from your browser window.

hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

Badasscoder • Oct 20 '21 • Edited

why postman needs an alternative. - before opening url
[ after opening url]

awesome. I don't need postman anymore. your app is web based. big thing it is written in vue js. that's why will use

Liyas Thomas • Oct 20 '21

You should definitely read about why I started the Hoppscotch project:

I created Hoppscotch 👽 - Open source API development ecosystem

Liyas Thomas ・ Aug 22 '19

#showdev #javascript #webdev #productivity

Badasscoder • Oct 20 '21

Really Amazing. Now I have an extension. Good bye postman. Welcome to Hoppscotch.

Badasscoder • Oct 29 '21

hey. Your extension does not have support for edge

Vamp • Oct 18 '20

this is so slick. and i echo the others - crisp and clear writing man. thanks for writing this

Yogesh Chavan • Oct 18 '20

Thank you so much :)

David • Jun 12

Hi, recently I discovered DevApiService. It's online tool for mockup API. You can make HTTP requests (GET, POST, PUT and DELETE) without limits and with token authorization than generate the platform.

steevn • Oct 16 '20

Thanks for the clear and simple explaination, Yogesh.

Yogesh Chavan • Oct 16 '20

Thank you :)

Yogesh Chavan • May 10 '21

You can use json-server for hosting your API on production as I did in this article here.

amlan • Dec 12 '20

Is there a way to add auth to it?

Yogesh Chavan • Dec 13 '20

yes, you can add authentication using middleware like this:

// server.js
const jsonServer = require('json-server')
const server = jsonServer.create()
const router = jsonServer.router('db.json')
const middlewares = jsonServer.defaults()

server.use(middlewares)
server.use(router)
server.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('JSON Server is running')
})