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Postcatlab/postcat
Postcat 是一个可扩展的 API 工具平台。集合基础的 API 管理和测试功能，并且可以通过插件简化你的 API 开发工作，让你可以更快更好地创建 API。An extensible API tool.
Postcat is an Electron + Angular desktop/web API testing tool — think Postman alternative with a plugin system. It targets small teams and individual developers who want something self-hostable and free. The project is now officially abandoned: the maintainers posted a shutdown notice and are redirecting users to their commercial product, Apikit.com.
The plugin architecture is the genuinely interesting part — theme, import/export, and sync are all extension points rather than hardcoded features. Ships as both an Electron desktop app and a browser-based client from the same codebase, which is a real engineering win. Monaco editor integration means the request/response body editor is actually good.
Dead project — the README leads with a maintenance suspension notice, no security fixes will come, and the team is pushing users to a closed SaaS. GraphQL and gRPC support were listed as 'coming soon' and never shipped. The dual Angular + Vue topic tags on a primarily Angular codebase suggest some architectural confusion mid-development. With 5.5k stars but only ~800 forks and a shuttered team, there is no community to fork and carry this forward.