Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch is a modern, open-source API development and testing platform trusted by over 77,000 developers worldwide. As a lightweight alternative to commercial API clients, it provides comprehensive tools for building, testing, and documenting APIs while maintaining complete control over your development environment and data privacy.

Common Use Cases

Development teams use Hoppscotch for API testing during frontend and backend development, ensuring seamless integration between services. QA engineers leverage its comprehensive testing features to validate API endpoints, response formats, and error handling across different environments. DevOps teams utilize Hoppscotch for monitoring API health and performance during deployment processes. Product teams collaborate on API documentation and specifications using its real-time sharing capabilities, while security teams conduct API vulnerability assessments and authentication testing.

Key Features

• Multi-protocol support for REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, and WebRTC connections
• Real-time collaboration with team workspaces and shared collections for seamless teamwork
• Advanced authentication support including OAuth 2.0, Bearer tokens, Basic Auth, and API keys
• Environment variables and dynamic request generation for testing across different stages
• Request history and collection management with import/export capabilities
• Built-in documentation generator with markdown support and automated API specs
• Responsive design with dark/light themes and keyboard shortcuts for enhanced productivity
• Self-hosted deployment option ensuring complete data privacy and security control
• Extension ecosystem with pre-request scripts and custom response processing
• WebSocket testing with real-time message inspection and protocol debugging

Why deploy Hoppscotch on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Hoppscotch on Hostinger VPS ensures complete data privacy and security for your API development workflows, with all sensitive API keys, request data, and documentation stored on your private infrastructure. The dedicated VPS resources provide optimal performance for complex API testing scenarios and large team collaborations without the limitations of shared hosting. You gain full customization control over authentication, integrations, and security policies while avoiding the subscription costs of commercial API platforms. The scalable VPS environment grows with your development team, supporting unlimited API collections, users, and concurrent testing sessions without external dependencies or data transmission concerns.