Postman's Turn For Layoffs

Postman sent shockwaves over the last few weeks by letting go of the entire JSON Schema and Async API teams. While not surprising given the constant layoffs across tech, even in profitable companies, it is sad to see this happen. While I am usually suspicious of a company hiring this many people involved in a spec due to control issues, it was terrific to see funding put into work that, while needed, is always forgotten.

Hopefully, we will continue to see further investment in these specs, and everyone who lost a job will soon find work.

-- Alexander

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Generate your OpenAPI Spec With Zod

Zod is a super handy library for defining type-safe APIs for use with TypeScript, and has been adopted my many frameworks as a best-in-class developer experience. This article shows how to generate an OpenAPI Spec directly from Zod definitions using the zod-openapi library.

Async API Community Update

While AsyncAPI has suffered from Postman's recent layoffs, the team is happy to announce IBM as the new gold sponsor for the year. A lot is happening in the community, with updates on the mentorship and bug bounty programs. The team also included details on how to help those affected by the job losses.

Ben Hutton JSON Schema Update

Ben Hutton gives a brief update on JSON Schema and the future while also linking to others on the team affected by the job losses. If you or anyone can help out, please reach out directly to Ben and the others.

Source: OpenAPI to Request Handlers

MSW, a popular front-end library for mocking network requests, has launched a new tool called Source. It automatically generates request handlers from OpenAPI specs and more. They made some interesting choices with this library, which really make it shine. It's definitely worth a look.

A Guide to reading and writing Node.js streams

Every API/backend system has to tackle working with large datasets at some point. In Node, working with Streams is the best way to handle this; however, they are not always implemented correctly. This fantastic guide by Matteo Collina will have you streaming in no time 😉.

Moving from Express to Fastify

For many years, Express has dominated the Node community for building APIs and other web systems. However, in recent years, its updates and support have been lacking. Fastify has gained a lot of traction and is a solid replacement. Val Town talks about the transition from Express to Fastify. My favourite part was how it allowed them to use their OpenAPI to generate types in Fastify.

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Finding Hidden API Parameters

Dana provides a great walkthrough on identifying and exploiting potential security vulnerabilities with hidden API parameters. As always, this is another excellent read from Dana.

API Fiddle

This promising new project is a browser-based tool for browsing and inspecting an Open API spec, with support for creating shared URLs for spec workspaces, as well as basic editing features.

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