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Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac. 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; Rest.li: A REST+JSON framework for robust, scalable service architectures, by LinkedIn. Rest.li is an open source REST framework for building robust, scalable RESTful architectures using type-safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO. Rest.li fills a niche for applying RESTful principals at scale with an end-to-end developer workflow for buildings REST APIs that promotes clean REST practices, uniform interface design and consistent data modeling.

Paw and Rest.li belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.

Rest.li is an open source tool with 1.94K GitHub stars and 392 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rest.li's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Paw
Pros of Rest.li
  • 46
    Great interface
  • 37
    Easy to use
  • 25
    More stable and performant than the others
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    Saves endpoints list for testing
  • 13
    Supports environment variables
  • 12
    Integrations
  • 9
    Multi-Dimension Environment Settings
  • 4
    Paste curl commands into Paw
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    Creates code for any language or framework
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    Cons of Paw
    Cons of Rest.li
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      It's not free
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      MacOS Only
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      What is 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.

      What is Rest.li?

      Rest.li is an open source REST framework for building robust, scalable RESTful architectures using type-safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO. Rest.li fills a niche for applying RESTful principals at scale with an end-to-end developer workflow for buildings REST APIs that promotes clean REST practices, uniform interface design and consistent data modeling.

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