What are some frameworks for building APIs straight away?

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Post by dmak » Thu, May 07, 2015, 1:35 PM UTC

I like Rail, but it has a lot of upfront configuration just to get started. I'll skip the details, but what are some frameworks that have authentication and authorization (OAuth2) out of the box? I just want to clone the project, setup the database, and start writing endpoints.

Re: What are some frameworks for building APIs straight away?

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Post by cotsog » Thu, May 07, 2015, 1:59 PM UTC

You can get up and running pretty fast with Eve in Python: http://python-eve.org/.

It has OAuth2 out of the box.

Currently using it for a personal project.

EDIT: formatting.

Re: What are some frameworks for building APIs straight away?

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Post by bikamonki » Thu, May 07, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

First ask yourself if the project really needs its own REST API server. 9 out of 10 times I end up using a BAAS service like parse.com where: user management (auth) is built-in, there is cloud code in case something must be run server-side, the free account is resourceful enough to get you started and then scaling is automatic. There will be limitations of course but if you need something faster than a pre-cooked API repo, that's the way to go.

Re: What are some frameworks for building APIs straight away?

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Post by zingui » Thu, May 07, 2015, 3:04 PM UTC

Sails.js (is based on ExpressJS) is a great for creating APIs, saves a lot of time if you're doing a MVP or testing something, and you can use a package to integrate PassaportJS which will give you the ability to use OAUTH2 well integrated to the framework.

I always use Sails when I doing an MVP or a simple API.