How Hoppscotch is building an open source ‘API development ecosystem’

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In 2021, APIs (application programming interfaces) are the glue that holds most software together they are what bring data to sales and marketing teams; privacy to banking and health care apps; and maps to your fitness-tracking app.APIs and microservices give companies greater flexibility and agility in terms of developing and scaling their software even with all the resources in the world, why would a company such as Uber develop its own in-app messaging infrastructure, when it can tap purpose-built APIs from a company such as Messagebird instead?Its against that backdrop that Hoppscotch is setting out to build what it calls an API development ecosystem, with open source at its core. A separate command line interface (CLI) tool, meanwhile, is designed for integrating automated test runners as part of CI/CD pipelines. They can also create smaller groups for specific teams, such as QA testers, or for external vendors and partners where sensitive data needs to be kept separate from specific projects they are involved in.While APIs are integral to most software these days, they also serve as a gateway for sensitive data whether thats personally identifiable information (PII) in a health care app, or tokens and passwords used for access to databases and other critical infrastructure. And this is why Hoppscotch has adopted an open source ethos from the get-go companies can elect to host Hoppscotch entirely in-house, giving them full control and visibility over their data.An API tooling system connects directly with the backend and database infrastructure telemetry and tracking information in proprietary services are hidden almost every time, [but] this should be transparent and flexible, Thomas told VentureBeat. We want to see a world that unwinds all of this complexity by providing the practices and tools that fit the developers workflow, empowering teams to focus on the act of building.

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