ApiLane

Stop grepping for endpoints. ApiLane scans your workspace, lists every API route in one clickable tree, and jumps straight to the handler when you click a route.

Features

• Multi-framework route scanning
  • Express / Fastify style: app.get(), router.post(), server.delete() and friends, with best-effort prefix resolution when app.use('/prefix', router) appears in the same file
  • NestJS: @Controller('base') combined with @Get(), @Post(), @Put(), @Delete(), @Patch()
  • FastAPI: @app.get(), @router.post() and other method decorators
  • Flask: @app.route() / @bp.route() with methods=[...] (defaults to GET)
  • Django: path() and re_path() entries in urls.py
• API Routes tree view in the activity bar
  • Group by file, by HTTP method, or view a flat list (toggle cycles file -> method -> flat)
  • Per-method icons and colors (GET green, POST blue, DELETE red, ...)
  • Item description shows the handler name; tooltip shows method, handler, framework and file:line
  • Click a route -> jump to the exact handler line
• Filter Routes quick pick: fuzzy-search every route by method, path, handler or file; picking one jumps to it
• Status bar item: $(list-tree) N routes with a per-method count breakdown in the tooltip; click -> opens Filter Routes
• Export: copy the full route list to the clipboard as a markdown table
• Auto-rescan: debounced (~1.5s) rescan whenever you save a .js, .ts, .jsx, .tsx or .py file

Commands

All commands live under the ApiLane category in the Command Palette:

Getting started

Open the Get Started with ApiLane walkthrough (Help -> Get Started -> ApiLane) or just open a project: ApiLane scans on activation and after every save. Click the ApiLane icon in the activity bar to see the route tree.

Example

app.use('/api', usersRouter);

usersRouter.get('/users', getUsers);
usersRouter.post('/users', createUser);
usersRouter.delete('/users/:id', deleteUser);

ApiLane tree (grouped by file):

users.ts (3 routes)
  GET /api/users        getUsers
  POST /api/users       createUser
  DELETE /api/users/:id deleteUser

@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
async def read_item(item_id: int):
    return {"item_id": item_id}

Shows up as GET /items/{item_id} with handler read_item.

Configuration

{
  "apiLane.excludeGlobs": [
    "**/node_modules/**",
    "**/dist/**",
    "**/venv/**"
  ]
}

Requirements

• VS Code 1.85.0 or higher

Author

Kanaihya Kumar - kanaihyakmr@gmail.com

License

MIT