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Napkin

The fastest way to build and deploy APIs.

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An online environment to prototype, deploy and share cloud functions. The editor includes code, testing tools, auth and environment variables. Functions can be written in JavaScript or Python and deployed as HTTP endpoints with a single click. Functions scale automatically to handle thousands of calls a day. Functions can be made public for sharing. The platform supports building automations, bots and webhook connections, with over 300,000 NPM and Python modules pre-installed.

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