Postman Adds Open Source Documentation and SDK Products
The API platform Postman announced Thursday it has acquired Fern, a developer experience company that helps developers ship API documentation and build software development kits (SDKs).
“Great APIs are defined by great developer experiences,” said Abhinav Asthana, CEO and co-founder of Postman, in the acquisition announcement. “Fern shares our belief that documentation and SDKs are critical to API adoption. By bringing Fern into the Postman family, we’re helping more teams deliver APIs that developers love to use.”
The open source Fern Docs allow teams to create customizable documentation alongside their API. The Fern SDK Generator, which is also open source, helps create production-ready SDKs. So far, the supported languages include TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, C# and PHP; with Swift and Rust coming soon, according to the website.
Good Code From AI Is Hard to Find
Handling AI-generated code is difficult. In fact, 61% of the over 1,000 tech professionals surveyed by Sonar think it takes a lot of effort to get good AI-generated or assisted code.
A key problem is that only 29% trust that AI code is functionally correct. Furthermore, 61% believe that AI produces code that looks correct but isn’t reliable.
When asked specifically about the impact on technical debt, 40% said that AI had created unnecessary or duplicative code.
Overall, 90% of respondents say their team uses AI to help write new code, and 89% of the survey respondents believe AI-generated or assisted code has improved developer productivity. However, only 55% believe it is very or extremely effective for this type of task. While slightly fewer use AI to write documentation (74%), about three-quarters believe AI is effective at this.
AI-generated code needs to be tested, but the survey found that while AI-generated code is often not reliable, only 48% check their AI-generated or assisted code before they commit it.
Even though they know better, some developers never check their code to see whether AI is involved or not. Developers aiming to produce excellent code should ensure their AI coding software is integrated into existing workflows, and Sonar is actively adding functionality to its offering.
— By Lawrence Hecht
React Router Identifies Security Vulnerabilities
React Router posted about six CVE’s identifying security vulnerabilities in React Router and Remix 2 on the X platform on Thursday.
There’s a full list of security issues published on the GitHub repository. Most of the six were moderate to severe, but one was critical and involved unauthorized file access when using createFileSessionStorage() with unsigned cookies.
The team recommended updating to the latest appropriate versions:
- React Router v7 — 7.12.0
- React Router v6 — 6.30.3
- Remix v2 — 2.17.2
Chrome Adds New Feature to DevTools MCP Server
The dev team for Chrome 144 has shipped a new feature to Chrome DevTools MCP server: The request conditions panel.
The request conditions panel was previously called the network request blocking panel.
“Alongside blocking requests, this panel now also lets you throttle individual requests,” the team wrote.
Users can open the panel from ⋮ > More Tools > Request Conditions, then toggle the Enable blocking and throttling checkbox to enable request blocking. Then click the + button to add a new text pattern. Then click the block icon to discard all rules.
They also shipped improvements for debugging fonts and adopted stylesheets.
“We landed various fixes for the DevTools MCP server and released v0.12.1,” the team wrote. “This version introduces a key new feature, auto connection, which enables you to reuse an existing browser session. With auto connection, you can start debugging yourself in Chrome, and then point DevTools MCP to the same Chrome instance to pick up where you left off.”
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