Apigee Tools & Plugins - Apigee Development Made Easy  

Hello Everyone,

Apigee Teams & Apigeeks built many tools that will be helpful to quickly build API Programs & help Api Developers while working with Apigee Edge & Other Apigee Products. In this article, let's take a look at various tools, plugins, scripts, command line tools that will help Apigee Developer which makes life easy.

1. ApiStudio.io:

• Use openApi to design your APIs
• Share API Spec with your team
• Test your APIs

2. Apigee-127 :

• Model First toolkit to build enterprise class APIs
• Open Source
• Built on Node.js

3. Apigee Tool :

• Command line tool for deploying API proxies and Node.js applications to the Apigee Edge platform. The tool also lets you list and undeploy API proxies.
• Built on Node.js
• You can do below operations from your machine.
• Supports Deploying an API proxy to Edge.
• Undeploying an API proxy from Edge.
• Deploying Node.js apps to Edge.
• Listing deployed API proxies on Edge. Access API Proxies on your local machine instead of Management UI.
• Retrieving deployed proxies and apps from Edge.
• Deleting proxy definitions from Edge.
• Retrieving log messages from Node.js apps deployed to Edge.

4. Apigee Maven Plugin :

• apigee-edge-maven-plugin is a build and deploy utility for building and deploying the Apigee ApiProxy's/Application bundles into Apigee Edge Platform.
• The Maven build strategy is a good strategy if your current enterprise build and deploy strategies already use Maven or Maven compatible tools.

5. Apigee Grunt Plugin :

• Tool to manage the API Development Lifecycle for Apigee
• Pluggable environment (thousands of npm and grunt modules and plugins).
• Grunt is perfect for applying continuous improvement by easily adding custom tasks.

6. Sweetlime :

• SweetLime is Sublime Text 3 plugin to develop Apigee Proxies. With built in template support for policies, steps and flows, SweetLime helps proxy developers build proxies with ease.
• Proxies developed with SweetLime can be deployed to either the Apigee cloud or your on-prem apigee edge installation (OPDK customers).
• Great tool to quickly build API Proxies in Apigee Edge by coding instead of configuring.
• Developers love this tool where they can code instead of configuration in Apigee UI

7. OpenAPI2Apigee : (Earlier called swagger2api)

• Command line tool that converts OpenAPI ( swagger ) spec 2.0 file to Apigee API Proxy Bundle.
• Built on Node.js
• Quickly build API Proxies & Flows using OpenAPI spec.
• Deploy API Proxies generated from OpenAPI Spec to Apigee Edge.

8. Apigee2openapi : (Earlier called Apigee2Swagger)

• Command line tool that converts Apigee API Proxy Bundle to OpenAPI spec 2.0 file .
• Built on Node.js
• It will help to generate OpenAPI 2.0 spec for Apigee Developer Portal Smartdocs.
• Find more detailed article here on using same.

9. Swagger-Utility:

• Swagger utility is a Java utility for generating API proxies from Swagger API Model. So it is Swagger API Model to API Proxies genrator tool.
• Similar to Swagger2Api but built on Java
• Supports Apigee-127 generated swagger files.

10. Apigee Javascript Debugger :

• A library providing utility methods to support the execution and debugging of Apigee Edge JSC callout policies on your local machine.
• This library requires no additional code in your javascript, and it executes outside the core framework of Edge.

11. Apickli :

• Apickli is a REST API integration testing framework based on cucumber.js.
• It provides a gherkin framework and a collection of utility functions to make API testing easy and less time consuming. Apickli is also available as an NPM package.
• Cucumber.js is JavaScript & Node.js implementation of Behaviour Driven Development test framework - Cucumber.
• Cucumber.js is using Gherkin language for describing the test scenarios in BDD manner.

12. Apigee Edge Node SDK :

• Node.JS SDK for Apigee Management API
• Easily integrate Apigee Management APIs into your existing Node.JS Applications.
• For Example, If you want to build Apigee Developer Portal using Node.JS framework it will be extremely useful.

13. API Platform Tools - Python :

• Similar to Apigee Tool, But python based. Project contains tools for the Apigee Gateway Services platform.
• Deploy API proxies
• Create skeleton proxies
• Deploy Node.js applications

14. Edge-PHP-SDK :

• PHP SDK for Apigee Edge Management API.
• Apigee Developer Portal uses this SDK to communicate with Apigee Edge.
• Helpful for Integrating Apigee Edge with PHP based applications.

15. ApigeeDM - Apigee Deploy Multiple Proxies :

• Deploy multiple Apigee API Proxies at one go using command line
• Built on top of ApigeeNodeTool
• Support for integrating into other scripts

16. API2Swagger :

• Swagger 2.0 Specification Generator
• CURL Like command syntax
• Support JSON/Plain text request/response
• Support for GET / POST / PUT / DELETE http method
• Saves lot of time, changes the way you write API documentation / display same using smartdocs / swagger UI
• Runs on local machine, built on top of Node.JS
• Find more about same here

17. OpenAPI Specification Generator :

• Generate Open API Spec: Easy step-by-step process
• Share Open API Spec with Team
• Collaborate on the cloud
  

Cheers,

Anil Sagar