APIdes
APIdes is a software platform for designing, testing, documenting, and governing application programming interfaces (APIs). It provides collaborative tooling to define API contracts, simulate behavior, generate client and server code, and publish user-friendly documentation. Although aimed at REST, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs, APIdes emphasizes a design-first approach, enabling teams to align on interface definitions before implementation.
Core features include a visual API designer for creating endpoints, schemas, and data models; mock servers that
APIdes follows a design-to-deploy workflow: design API contracts, simulate and validate behavior with mocks, write and
Origin and ecosystem: APIdes was developed to address API governance and collaborative design challenges and has