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. Requests are executed on your machine so you can call localhost as well as remote servers
6. Collection and Request description (documentation) with Markdown
7. Request/Response scripts (for both collections and requests)
8. 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. 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

4. 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
5. Start the vite dev server on port 9338

cd client/
npm run dev

6. Start the dev-proxy on port 9337

cd dev-proxy/
node index.js

7. 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.