Open source rest projects

Every project in the registry tagged rest, ranked by real GitHub adoption.

projects 10 combined stars ★ 195K refresh nightly
01 Hoppscotch ★ 80K

Sleek, intuitive API development and testing platform

last push33 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseMIT
02 OpenAPI-Specification ★ 31K

The OpenAPI Specification Repository

last push6 days ago languageMarkdown licenseApache-2.0
03 postgrest ★ 28K

REST API for any Postgres database

last push6 hours ago languageHaskell licenseMIT
04 openapi-generator ★ 27K

OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec

last push7 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
05 swagger-core ★ 7.5K

Examples and server integrations for generating the Swagger API Specification, which enables easy access to your REST API

last push19 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
06 wiremock ★ 7.4K

A tool for mocking HTTP services

last push2 days ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
07 goa ★ 6.1K

Design-first Go framework that generates API code, documentation, and clients. Define once in an elegant DSL, deploy as HTTP and gRPC services with zero drift b

last push24 hours ago languageGo licenseMIT
08 go-restful ★ 5.1K

package for building REST-style Web Services using Go

last push10 days ago languageGo licenseMIT
09 resterm ★ 1.9K

Terminal API client for HTTP, GraphQL and gRPC. Plain .http files you can diff and version, with workflows, mocks, profiling, tracing, OpenAPI import, SSH tunne

last push5 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
10 just-api ★ 814

:boom: Test REST, GraphQL APIs

last push7 months ago languageJavaScript licenseMIT

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Frequently asked questions

How many open source rest projects are there?

This registry tracks 10 projects tagged rest, with 194,820 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is Hoppscotch at 80,331 stars.

Are these rest projects free to use?

Yes — 10 of the 10 carry an explicit open-source licence across 2 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.

Which rest project should I choose?

The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.

Are these rest projects still maintained?

9 of the 10 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.