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Restc – A server-side middleware to visualize REST requests

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It's not clear to me what this does. Maybe I'm out of the loop on this, I understand middleware, but what does this do?

That is my question too. I looked through its github page and almost all things are written in Chinese...

Having trouble getting a decent translation to run against the site.

> If you use a browser to directly open an API address can only GET method request, RESTful other methods will not be tested.

> After the use of restc can not only send a variety of HTTP method request, or you can edit the request parameters online.

But from images like this [0], I'd be guessing it is sort of like a web GUI for making plain HTTP requests, and probably hooks into your server to automatically give you a list of paths for said requests.

But it could really do with a translation, especially to prove it isn't yet another crappy Chinese GitHub project.

[0] https://fuss10.elemecdn.com/d/d1/3bee7ea4630b9b22d7428221f93...

Yet another? That seems totally uncalled for.

If it was in English, I might call it yet another crappy project.

As it stands, there are many crap projects that appear in either one of the languages we label as "Chinese" or English. Seems to be a dominant split between them.

But, to reinforce my point, here are some Chinese projects of dubious quality, from GitHub's trending lists:

* https://github.com/qiyeboy/IPProxys

* https://github.com/callmelanmao/yunshare

* https://github.com/ruanyf/jstraining

* https://github.com/huacnlee/flora-kit

Cool I guess but why is this on the front page of an English site if nobody can figure out what it does and has no English docs? Seems like 90%+ of readers will be unable to use this

There's a myriad of different solutions for inspecting http requests that work just fine and have been around for eons. These days it seems like anything with the right buzzwords in the title makes it to the top

> There's a myriad of different solutions for inspecting http requests

You could post some examples

Fiddler, chrome devtools, Wireshark, postman and other chrome extensions. Many languages have hooks for viewing raw http requests and responses

It appears to be a node.js app that one uses to explore and/or debug arbitrary REST APIs.

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