@antelopejs/dms-api

See whether your API is healthy, which routes fail or slow down and why, and test any route from the dashboard.

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What it does

• Tells whether your API is healthy, since when and why not, with traffic, errors and the slowest routes.
• Captures every request of your project's routes with its error, timing, headers and bodies (size-capped and redacted).
• Lists every registered route with its statistics and a contract inferred from code and traffic.
• Sends test requests from a built-in tester, logged apart from real traffic.
• Applies its settings (watched routes, retention, captured headers, slow threshold) without a restart.

It is the dashboard for your API, not the HTTP server: the project still needs an API provider such as @antelopejs/api.

Install

Run the AntelopeJS CLI from the root of a project that already loads @antelopejs/dms:

ajs project modules add @antelopejs/dms-api

Quick start

The module works without configuration. Restart the backend, then the frontend, and open Modules → API (/modules/api). Review the configuration before capturing real traffic: request logs can hold application data.

To try it with sample traffic, clone this repository and run its playground:

pnpm install && pnpm dev          # backend
pnpm frontend:dev                 # dashboard, in a second terminal
pnpm --dir playground traffic     # a few hundred demo requests

template-dms-demo also loads the module.

Compatibility

Package	Supported	Tested with
@antelopejs/interface-api	>=0.2.0 <1.0.0	0.2.0
@antelopejs/interface-api-util	>=0.3.0 <1.0.0	0.3.0
@antelopejs/interface-core	>=0.4.0 <1.0.0	0.4.0
@antelopejs/interface-database	>=0.3.0 <1.0.0	0.3.0
@antelopejs/interface-database-decorators	>=0.2.0 <1.0.0	0.2.0
@antelopejs/interface-dms	>=0.12.0 <1.0.0	0.12.0
@antelopejs/interface-dms-automation	>=0.6.0 <1.0.0	0.6.0

The module also needs a DMS backend in a release that implements the @antelopejs/interface-dms range above, and the @antelopejs/dms-frontend renderer in the range its frontend module declares in engines["@antelopejs/dms-frontend"] of frontend-vue/package.json; the ajs dms CLI refuses to build it with a renderer outside that range. It runs on these providers:

• API provider: @antelopejs/api.
• Database: an @antelopejs/interface-database implementation, such as @antelopejs/mongodb.

Upgrading from 0.1? Read the FAQ.

Documentation

• Introduction
• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Extending
• FAQ

The guide's sources live in docs/. The package also ships the dms-api Claude Code skill in skills/, declared under antelopeJs.skills.

Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. Use the pnpm version declared in package.json. The playground connects to MongoDB at mongodb://localhost:27017 unless MONGO_URL points elsewhere.

One root install includes the backend and shipped Vue module, retaining their separate lockfiles. The playground remains independent: run pnpm --dir playground install --ignore-workspace --frozen-lockfile before starting it. Use the root scripts below rather than recursive scripts: frontend build and typecheck need the playground or a generated Inertia workspace, and root checks already delegate to the Vue module.

pnpm install
pnpm dev            # playground backend
pnpm frontend:dev   # dashboard, in a second terminal
pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test           # backend unit tests (tests/), then the frontend suite
pnpm knip

Repository notes

• To build and typecheck the frontend module against the installed DMS, run pnpm exec ajs dms verify-source -m ../frontend-vue from playground/, or set DMS_FRONTEND_WORKSPACE to the workspace generated by ajs dms prepare and run pnpm --dir frontend-vue typecheck.

Part of AntelopeJS DMS

This module installs into AntelopeJS DMS, the open-source back office. Every module adds its pages to the same dashboard, behind the same sign-in and roles.

Module	What it adds
dms-builder	Edit pages, tables and data sources by clicking, as TypeScript that compiles
dms-ai	An assistant chat in the dashboard, on your own Claude Code or Codex
dms-database	Schemas, relation diagrams, a data browser and a query console
dms-api	API health, request logs, per-route statistics and a request tester
dms-automation	Node-graph automations on schedules, webhooks and DMS events, with a trace for every run
dms-mailing	E-mail templates in a block editor, versions, a send log and delivery metrics
dms-lang	Translation coverage, a translation matrix and a translation queue
dms-media	A media library with folders, per-folder permissions, image sizes and light editing
dms-saas	Self-service sign-up, plans that gate features, and Stripe billing
dms-marketing	Traffic, conversion funnels with A/B splits and click heatmaps, without cookies
dms-frontend	The ajs dms CLI, the Vue renderer and the SDK every frontend module builds on

License

Apache-2.0