API.horse is a hosted tool you can use to test APIs with. You can send test requests to endpoints and see the responses, or host endpoints yourself for testing your webhooks.
CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT - this tool is currently in development, but I'll be saddling up within a few days.
- Full request tester and response logger
- Secrets, so your shared links don't include keys & tokens
- Instant sharable links to your session
- Hosted endpoints for sending requests to
- An API gateway to provide logging and debugging to third party APIs
- Make the user interface look less Githubby.
Each piece of the user interface is composed of its own custom HTML element, brought together using PHP.Gt/WebEngine. I've just completed building the user interface of API.horse, and before I implement the functionality, I want to introduce a long-awaited feature of WebEngine: Components with their own PHP. There's never a better time to improve a tool than when building a silly side project like this. I've completed building the PHP component functionality, so now the plan is to simply build and test the project's originally-planned functionality. I will release the first version on www.api.horse as soon as it's usable.
Currently the user interface is built to look and feel just like Github. This is intentional, because I personally have no ability at creating good designs, but I am quite comfortable in implementing a design once I can see it. I'm really familiar with Github's user interface, so for now I've just copied that. Once the product's in use, I'll hire a graphic designer to give it its own look and feel.
Naming stuff is hard, but I don't think a product's name really matters, so I went with a stupid name that is memorable, and is a short URL. That's all there is to it.