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Stoplight

Score9 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Stoplight?

Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform that aims to enable consistency, reusability, and quality, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience. Presented as a solution to help utilize and integrate design-first workflows to scale up standardized, collaborative, and well-governed API programs.

Categories & Use Cases

Great git, markdown and openapi integrations

Pros

  • OpenAPI support
  • Markdown supports
  • Git integration

Cons

  • Support for multiple environments could be easier

Most Important Features

  • Git integration
  • Markdown support

Return on Investment

  • Increased efficiency
  • Improved comminication between backeend and frontend

Other Software Used

GitLab, Google Cloud SQL

StopLight for all your API testing needs

Pros

  • OAI code. StopLight is a great tool to use if you use Swagger for testing your endpoints.
  • Sharing API's. StopLight makes it easy for us to share our API's internally with other teams.
  • Tech support. StopLight's dev team responds quickly and helpfully to tech questions and there's plenty of forum support to boot.

Cons

  • Simplicity of set up. Although it's not difficult, there are tools out there that are easier to set up for testing endpoints.
  • Again, it's perfectly functional, but some competitors I think have a more user friendly UI to them.

Return on Investment

  • Increased efficiency
  • Improved API reliability
  • Easier testing

Alternatives Considered

Postman, SoapUI Pro, Dell Boomi, WSO2 API Manager, Anypoint API Manager and HttpMaster

Other Software Used

Postman, SoapUI Pro, HttpMaster, Anypoint API Manager