Yaade - Yet Another API Development Environment

Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment.

📚 Documentation

Visit docs.yaade.io.

🤔 Why did you develop Yaade?

I was looking for a self-hosted Postman alternative so that API collections can easily be shared between teammates. Even though popular solutions like Hoppscotch exist, their self-hosted app does not come with authentication and relies on Firebase for persistency. Yaade is developed from the ground up with self-hosting and security in mind. That means sensitive information in API requests can safely be stored on your own server!

🌟 Features

1. Self-hosted: data never leaves your own server
2. Multi-user: manage users and their permissions
3. Persistent: even across container or server restarts
4. Easy single-file data import / export
5. Proxy requests through your browser or through the server
6. REST and Websockets with Markdown documentation support
7. Scripts: Run scripts as cron jobs or via the API. Execute requests or run tests all in pure JavaScript
8. Import collections from OpenAPI or Postman. Export to all different languages and frameworks.
9. Most importantly: dark mode default

⚡ Install

To have the best experience with Yaade run the docker container on your server and install the browser extension on your local machine.

1. 🐋 Docker

docker volume create yaade
docker run -d --restart=always -p 9339:9339 -e YAADE_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin -v yaade:/app/data --name yaade esperotech/yaade:latest

The default password is password. After login go to ⚙️ > Account and change the password.

2. 🔧 Extension

Yaade uses a browser extension as a proxy to enable CORS requests. Install the extension using your browsers extension store. Currently only a chrome extension is available. You can find it here (Chrome) and here (Firefox). Then open it and input your server URL, eg. https://yaade.example.com/. From that point all requests originating from your Yaade browser tabs will be proxied through the extension.

⬆️ Upgrade

To upgrade the docker container with a new version, first stop the running container, pull the latest version and start a new container with the old volume.

docker rm -f yaade
docker pull esperotech/yaade:latest
docker run -d --restart=always -p 9339:9339 -e YAADE_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin -v yaade:/app/data --name yaade esperotech/yaade:latest

💾 Technology

1. SPA built with TypeScript, React and Vite.
2. Backend built with Kotlin.
3. H2 file-based database.
4. Browser extension with plain JavaScript.

🖥️ Local development

1. Install the required dependencies
   • Java 11
   • Kotlin
   • Node >= 16
2. Clone the repository
3. Install the project specific dependencies

cd scripts/
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

1. Start the server on port 9339 using your IDE of choice (I use IntelliJ IDEA)
   • you can also run it by using the jar file directly $ java -jar server/build/libs/yaade-server-1.0-SNAPSHOT
   • note that you must set the environment variable YAADE_ADMIN_USERNAME to run
2. Start the vite dev server on port 9338

cd client/
npm run dev

1. Start the dev-proxy on port 9337

cd dev-proxy/
node index.js

1. Now open your browser and visit http://localhost:9337

🔨 Build

cd scripts/
chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh

Screenshots

🌙 Dark mode

☀️ Light mode

More Screenshots

🤝 How can I contribute?

Your contribution is very welcome! First open an issue about the topic you want to contribute on, eg. adding a new feature, bugfixing or refactoring. We will then discuss further details. Eventually, I will review your Pull Request and merge / release it.