# EsperoTech/yaade

Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment.

Repository: https://github.com/EsperoTech/yaade
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yaade
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: selfhosted, docker, kotlin, typescript, h2-database, api, postman, hoppscotch
Last push: 2025-09-08T11:57:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 41, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1629, "days_push": 359, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1986, forks 89 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:02.795715+00:00)

## What it is
Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment designed as a Postman alternative. It supports REST and WebSocket requests, multi-user permission management, scripting, and collection import/export, with all data persisted on your own server.

## Use cases
- self-host a Postman alternative for my team
- share API collections with teammates on our own server
- test REST and websocket APIs collaboratively
- import Postman or OpenAPI collections and run requests
- run API request scripts as cron jobs
- store API requests securely without third-party cloud

## When to choose
- you need a self-hosted API client where sensitive data stays on your server
- your team wants shared, multi-user API collections with permissions
- you want Postman/Hoppscotch features without cloud dependency or Firebase

## When to avoid
- you need a polished desktop app with offline-first workflows
- you require GraphQL or gRPC support out of the box
- you don't want to run Docker or maintain a server

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, api-framework, auth, websocket, self-hosted, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, apis, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, browser-extension, jvm
- tags: api-client, postman-alternative, collaborative, rest-client, api-testing, openapi-import, docker, web-server, typescript

## Member repositories
- EsperoTech/yaade (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.795715+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:02.101706+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/EsperoTech/yaade (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.795715+00:00, sha f984bac26155)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.