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Firecamp is a free, open source api development & testing project written in TypeScript and released under AGPL-3.0. It has 2,610 GitHub stars, 168 forks and 105 open issues, and was last pushed 7 months ago. On this registry it ranks #73 of 103 tracked projects in API Development & Testing, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

What is Firecamp?

What it is

Firecamp is an open-source API development tool written in TypeScript and released under AGPL-3.0. It positions itself as a developer-first alternative to Postman and Insomnia, and it lives in the developer tools and API development ecosystem.

It aims to reduce context switching by providing one workspace for designing, developing, testing, and documenting APIs. The concrete problem it addresses is the need to test REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and Socket.IO APIs without moving between separate clients, while keeping collections and authentication workflows shared across a team.

Key capabilities

  • Firecamp provides dedicated playgrounds for REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and Socket.IO APIs, so protocol-specific requests can be tested in one product.
  • It supports collection management, allowing API requests to be organized and shared within a team.
  • It provides a centralized shared workspace for team collaboration on API collections.
  • It includes authentication testing and debugging for endpoints using a range of supported authentication methods.
  • It supports pre-request and test scripts for interpreting API behavior during development.
  • It uses dynamic variables so values can be set in environments and reused across the platform.
  • It is available as a web platform and as desktop downloads for macOS Intel, macOS Silicon, Windows x64, and Linux AppImage.

Who uses it and how

  • Developers use the REST playground to test endpoints and organize requests into collections.
  • Teams use GraphQL, WebSocket, and Socket.IO playgrounds to debug real-time and event-driven APIs without separate tools.
  • Collaborative teams share collections in a workspace and test authentication flows together.
  • Users create scripts and variables to reuse requests across environments and team members.
  • Individuals or teams start with the hosted web app or install the desktop client.

Getting started

Users can sign in at https://firecamp.dev and follow the Getting Started guide from the documentation. Desktop downloads are provided for macOS Intel, macOS Silicon, Windows x64, and Linux AppImage.

When to use it — and when not to

It fits teams that want an open-source, AGPL-3.0 client for multi-protocol API work and prefer a hosted web or desktop workflow. Compared with Postman and Insomnia, it offers an alternative API client scope under an open-source license. Because the repository metadata lists zero contributors and 105 open issues, evaluators should verify maturity before production reliance, and self-hosting, CLI, CI/CD, and published API documentation appear on the roadmap rather than as confirmed current features.

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Firecamp

Open Source Postman Alternative

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Firecamp

Firecamp is a dx-first API development platform that helps developers design, develop, test, and document their APIs effortlessly. With a user-friendly interface and a range of powerful features, it streamlines the API development workflow and enhances collaboration among team members.

  • 🌈 best-in-class developer experience inspired by vscode dx.
  • 📡 multi-protocol testing capabilities with Rest, GraphQL, Websocket, and SocketIO APIs.
  • 👐 collaborate on API collections across the workspace and team
  • ⛺ build APIs faster without switching between tools and apps. documentation, cli, ci/cd under one roof

👉 Web: https://firecamp.dev

Download Firecamp Desktop Application

  1. Firecamp for MacOS Intel
  2. Firecamp for MacOS Silicon
  3. Firecamp for Windows
  4. Firecamp for Linux AppImage

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🚀 Getting started with Firecamp

To get started with Firecamp, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to Firecamp at https://firecamp.dev
  2. Follow the Getting Started guide from the documentation.
  3. Start developing, and testing your APIs using Firecamp.

Read the Firecamp doc for in-depth walk-throughs on functionality to understand the various features and capabilities of Firecamp.

🔬 Features

Firecamp offers you a broad range of features that will help you build APIs faster than ever.

📂 Collection: Manage Collection of APIs to collaborate within the team

⛳ API Playgrounds: Get instant playgrounds for your APIs. Rest, GraphQL, and more

♻️ Team Collaboration: Collaborate with your team at a centralized shared workspace

🔐 Authentication: Test and Debug your auth endpoints with a range of supported auths

📠 Scripts: Interpret the API with pre-request and tests scripts

🔩 Dynamic Variables: Set values in variables to reuse in the whole platform dynamically

📡 Firecamp Web: Get quick access to the web platform

🏕️ API Playgrounds

There is a dedicated GUI playground for each API protocol you would be using for your stack.

  1. Rest Playground It's the lightweight, IntelliSense, and next-generation testing client to give the most delightful collaborative experience while building APIs in a team.

  2. GraphQL Playground Perform GraphQL operations with a seamless experience. Prepare, Share, and Export your Query Collection collaboratively with your team.

  3. WebSocket Playground
    Debug bidirectional connection visually with WebSocket GUI client more precisely now. The only GUI client to test, debug, and visualize real-time or event-driven messages collaboratively.

  4. Socket.io Playground Monitor each emitter’s and listener’s events visually over a bi-directional SocketIO connection. It enables you to collaborate with the team over a SocketIO event-driven API build.

🛣️ Roadmap

🛰️ Self-hosted: Host Firecamp on your own server

🔁 CLI & CI/CD: Run API Collection Tests in the terminal or set in CI/CD pipeline

➿ API Test Runner: Run the API Collection visually within the platform

📄 API Documentation: Publish beautiful API documentation for your team and community

⚛️ Artificial Intelligence: Cutting-edge AI-powered capabilities

⚓ SSL: Use custom SSL certificates to test out the SSL-secured API endpoints

📝 Proxy: Setup proxy while running requests from Firecamp

ℹ️ History: Seamless history tracking

🏆 Community and Support

For community support, you can join the Firecamp community on Discord. You can also check out the Firecamp Blog for the latest updates, tutorials, and articles.

Here are helpful links for Firecamp

If you encounter any bugs, or issues, or have suggestions, please open an issue on the Firecamp GitHub repository. We appreciate your contributions to making Firecamp even better.

💭 Philosophy

The decentralization of tools, processes, and people creates friction in API development workflow and frustration across the team. Developers are constantly switching between tools, searching for information, and wasting time due to inefficient tools. We believe that the existing solution lacks both world-class experience and the simplicity needed to build APIs faster. This leads to a decrease in developer productivity, slow release times, and poor team collaboration. We are bringing the VS code philosophy to Firecamp to solve this critical problem. Our mission is to build the most extensible, minimal, and best developer experience API platform where developers feel most productive while building APIs.

🏄 What's cool about this?

Firecamp is a Multi-protocol API platform, which offers end-to-end testing and development of Rest, GraphQL, WebSocket, and many other APIs. We support major API specifications and protocols, which allows for seamless API testing, API documentation, and smoother collaboration between backend, frontend, and mobile teams.

✍️ Contribution

Here is the guide for contributions to help you begin your journey in contributing and our list of open issues for more information.

We appreciate all your contributions to Firecamp 🤗

Here are a few ways:

  • Star this repo.
  • Create issues every time you feel something is missing or goes wrong.
  • Upvote issues with 👍 reaction so we know what the demand for a particular issue is to prioritize it within the roadmap.

💎 All Thanks To Our Contributors

Frequently asked questions

Is Firecamp free to use?

Firecamp is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does Firecamp do?

Unified API development ecosystem for modern teams

What is Firecamp written in?

Firecamp is primarily written in TypeScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/firecamp-dev/firecamp, and it has 2,610 GitHub stars.