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  5. Fern vs tsoa

Fern vs tsoa

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Overview

tsoa
tsoa
Stacks27
Followers6
Votes0
GitHub Stars3.9K
Forks527
Fern
Fern
Stacks7
Followers4
Votes0
GitHub Stars3.4K
Forks268

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Detailed Comparison

tsoa
tsoa
Fern
Fern

It is a framework with integrated OpenAPI compiler to build Node.js serve-side applications using TypeScript. It can target express, hapi, koa and more frameworks at runtime. tsoa applications are type-safe by default and handle runtime validation seamlessly.

Start with an API spec. Generate SDKs in multiple languages and interactive API documentation tailored to your brand.

Automatically get accurate, complete, correct and up-to-date OpenAPI Specifications from your TypeScript code; No more manual validation. tsoa makes sure the input can be assigned according to the types you specified or will throw automatically if it can't; Doesn't matter if you use express, koa, hapi or your own framework. We can support it out of the box or with a custom template
SDK generator; Node.js client; Java client; Python client; Go client; PHP client; Ruby Client; C# Client; API Documentation; OpenAPI compatible; AsyncAPI compatible; OpenRPC compatibale; gRPC compatible; Fern definition compatible; Postman collection; MCP generator;
Statistics
GitHub Stars
3.9K
GitHub Stars
3.4K
GitHub Forks
527
GitHub Forks
268
Stacks
27
Stacks
7
Followers
6
Followers
4
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
Koa
Koa
hapi
hapi
Node.js
Node.js
TypeScript
TypeScript
ExpressJS
ExpressJS
PyPI
PyPI
GitHub
GitHub
asyncio
asyncio
OpenAPI
OpenAPI
Python
Python
npm
npm
Postman
Postman
TypeScript
TypeScript
gRPC
gRPC

What are some alternatives to tsoa, Fern?

Postman

Postman

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Paw

Paw

Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

Karate DSL

Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

Appwrite

Appwrite

Appwrite's open-source platform lets you add Auth, DBs, Functions and Storage to your product and build any application at any scale, own your data, and use your preferred coding languages and tools.

Runscope

Runscope

Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

RAML

RAML

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.

Apigee

Apigee

API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world.

Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch

It is a free, fast and beautiful API request builder. It helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development

Falcor

Falcor

Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.

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