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Review on Mashape by Bryan Hill

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Seems solid but not perfect: Mashape

I like that it's easy to integrate with my own application. The dashboard view is very helpful for understanding what data you're getting back from your APIs. It would be nice if there was more info about each endpoint. For example, when I'm writing code for one of my applications, I can't figure out how many requests per second my app is making. Also, sometimes the documentation isn't great. Sometimes I don't understand why certain things are happening in the response for an endpoint. It's also difficult to search for an endpoint for a specific resource. If you need to add multiple endpoints to your API, then mashape makes that relatively simple. We are using mashape to create a microservices architecture where we have multiple apps using our api. It has made it much easier to implement as we can easily control permissions and access without having to write any code ourselves.

Pros
  • Easy integration
  • Can pull json directly into javascript libraries such nodejs or ruby (easiest way)
  • Good support community via slack & email.
  • haven’t used this long enough!
Cons
  • There are disadvantages