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A self-hosted API documentation, mocking, and testing platform from xuxueli (the author of xxl-job). It's aimed at teams who want one internal tool where product, frontend, backend, and QA can define APIs, generate mock responses, and run basic tests, with projects/groups/permissions layered on top.
Project and group-level isolation with permission control means you can run it for an entire org without every team seeing every other team's APIs. The built-in MockServer with customizable response formats is genuinely useful for frontend/backend parallel work instead of needing a separate mocking tool. Official Docker images are pushed on every release, so deployment is a `docker pull` away rather than a manual build. Comes from the xxl-job/xxl-sso family, so the author has a track record of maintaining infra tools long-term rather than abandoning them.
The frontend is AdminLTE + jQuery + Bower + CKEditor — a stack that was dated five years ago and is effectively unmaintained upstream, which means you inherit old dependency risk with no realistic path to swap it out. Documentation, the community channel, and most of the feature list are Chinese-only; the English README is a thin summary and you'll be reading machine-translated docs for anything beyond basics. There's no visible OpenAPI/Swagger import or export, so unlike YApi or Apifox you're manually entering API definitions rather than generating them from code annotations. It's GPL-3.0, which is a real blocker if you want to fork, embed, or white-label it inside a commercial product without open-sourcing your changes. Auth is a custom SimpleLoginStore/XxlSsoConfig setup rather than OAuth/SAML, so enterprise SSO integration is DIY.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →