Fusio is an open source API management platform which helps to build and manage RESTful APIs. It provides endpoint versioning, handling data from different data sources, schema definition (JsonSchema), automatic documentation generation and secure authorization (OAuth2). More informations on http://www.fusio-project.org/
We think that there is a huge potential in the API economy. Whether you need an API to expose your business functionality or to develop One-Page web applications or Mobile-Apps. Because of this we think that Fusio is a great tool to simplify building such APIs.
To install Fusio download the latest version and place the folder into the www directory of the webserver. After this Fusio can be installed in the following steps.
- Adjust the configuration file
Open the fileconfiguration.phpin the Fusio directory and change the keypsx_urlto the domain pointing to the public folder. Also insert the database credentials to thepsx_sql_*keys. - Execute the installation command
The installation script inserts the Fusio database schema into the provided database. It can be executed with the following commandphp bin/fusio install. - Create administrator user
After the installation is complete you have to create a new administrator account. Therefor you can use the following commandphp bin/fusio adduser. Choose as account type "Administrator" and save the generated password.
You can then login to the backend at /backend.htm where you can start to
configure the system.
The offical documentation is available at http://fusio.readthedocs.org/
Today there are many use cases where you need a great documented REST API. In the following we list the most popular choices where Fusio comes in to play.
Exposing an API of your business functionality is a great way to extend your product. You enable customers to integrate it into other applications which gives the possibility to open up for new markets. With Fusio you can build such APIs and integrate them seamlessly into your product.
Javascript frameworks like i.e. AngularJS or EmberJS becoming more popular. With Fusio you can easily build a backend for such applications. So you dont have to build the backend part by yourself.
Almost all mobile apps need some form to interact with a remote service. This is mostly done through REST APIs. With Fusio you can easily build such APIs which then can also be used by other applications.
- Versionable endpoints
With Fusio you can create flexible endpoints to design the API in the way you like. Each endpoint can have multiple versions with different request and response formats. This makes it easy to advance your API as it grows. - Action handling
Fusio provides already many actions to handle common usecases. I.e. it is possible to execute SQL queries against a database or send data into a message queue. Also it is very easy to provide custom implementations. - Schema definition
Fusio gives you the option to describe the data schema of the request and response in the flexible JsonSchema format. - Automatic documentation
Fusio generates automatically a documentation of the API endpoints based on the provided schema definitions. - Secure authorization
Fusio uses OAuth2 for API authorization. Each app can be limited to scopes to request only specific endpoints of the API.
If you have found bugs or want to make feature requests use the bug tracker on GitHub. For code contributions feel free to send a pull request through GitHub, there we can discuss all details of the changes.