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A Guide to the Most Popular Types of APIs: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC

gRPC GraphQL API Tester
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    Application and Data, Languages & Frameworks, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and Service Discovery
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    gRPC Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) is a cross-platform, open-source, contract-based communication protocol that streamlines and controls interservice communication by providing a set of functions to external clients.

    #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 86 social mentions

  2. GraphQL is a data query language and runtime to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    When Facebook created GraphQL, they required a robust data-fetching API that could perform all of Facebook's tasks while being straightforward and easy to learn and use by their product developers. GraphQL was created in order to rebuild Facebook's native mobile apps.

    #Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework 223 social mentions

  3. API Tester is the first mobile app to test any type of API on the go. Including REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SOAP, JSON RPC, XML, HTTP, HTTPS.
    Pricing:
    • Free
    Remember that you can always run a simple proof-of-concept with one or two types to test how they work. You can also use API Tester, an easy-to-use mobile app that helps you to test any API on your phone.

    #Developer Tools #APIs #API Tools 17 social mentions

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