Developer Accounts

Empower Your Team with Secure, Isolated Workspaces

With API Maker’s Developer Accounts, each team member gets their own secure, isolated workspace. No more risky shared environments, every developer works with their own credentials, Git path, and configuration settings. This ensures safety, accountability, and seamless collaboration.

Key advantages at a glance:

• Unlimited developer accounts with unique credentials and API paths
• Per-developer Git workflows, pull, push, branch status, and rollback controlled from within API Maker
• Database name masking ensures consistent environments without manual changes during git operations
• Secrets remain private, each dev has confidential config values that are excluded from Git and protected by design

Why Developer Accounts Matter

Managing team access without silos can lead to conflicts, accidental overrides, or insecure configurations. API Maker’s Developer Accounts prevent these issues by offering:

• Workspace separation, developers operate independently but within a shared project context.
• Version control integration, manage schema, code, and configs via Git directly inside the platform.
• Environment consistency, database masking keeps names aligned across local, staging, or production branches.
• Secure secret management, dev-only secrets stay out of version control.
• Activity tracking & accountability, every action can be traced to its origin, enabling better collaboration and auditability.

How Developer Accounts Work - The Workflow

To better visualize how Developer Accounts function, here’s the simplified workflow diagram:

Here’s what it shows:

• Developers manage Secrets, Custom APIs, Events, and API Settings directly from their workspace.
• All changes are saved in the database and versioned through Git commits.
• Updates are pushed into feature branches (e.g., feature_1_dev.1), which can then merge into dev, uat, or prod environments.
• API Maker integrates seamlessly with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and custom Git servers, so teams can stick with their preferred version control provider.

This workflow ensures every developer has an independent workspace, while collaboration stays smooth, traceable, and conflict-free.

What You Get with Developer Accounts

API Maker thoughtfully supports team-based development with the following confined yet collaborative capabilities:

• Multiple Accounts, One Project Create as many developer accounts as you need, each with unique API paths and login credentials.

• Integrated Git Workflow Developers can authenticate to Git, manage branches, pull, push, view diffs, and even revert changes, all without leaving API Maker.

• Database Masking Automatically align database names across environments to avoid conflicts during Git operations or merges.

• Secret Isolation Each developer has their own secrets that stay private and never get committed to Git.

Git Integration Made Simple

With API Maker, Git is built right in, no switching tools, no juggling commands. Developers can work faster and with more confidence because version control happens directly inside the platform.

Here’s what that means in practice:

• Smooth branch management – Create, switch, and track feature branches without leaving API Maker.
• Commit & push with ease – Save your changes, commit them, and push to your remote repository in just a few clicks.
• Keep environments in sync – Thanks to database masking, dev, uat, and prod branches stay aligned without messy manual edits.
• Freedom of choice – Whether you use GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or a custom Git server, API Maker fits right in.

In short, Git integration in API Maker takes away the friction of managing code, schema, and configs separately. Your team stays in flow, collaboration feels natural, and every change is traceable from commit to production.

Developer Experience - Benefits in Action

• Frictionless collaboration, each dev works independently while staying in sync with the project.
• Safe experimentation, try new features in personal branches without impacting other teams.
• Easy rollbacks and tracking, built-in Git tooling lets you revert or troubleshoot with confidence.
• Consistent environments, database masking ensures alignment across all branches and developers.
• Secure configuration, personal secrets never leak into shared codebases or logs.

FAQs

Can multiple developers work on the same API project simultaneously?

Yes, you can create unlimited developer accounts with unique credentials and API paths, allowing independent yet coordinated workflows.

How does API Maker handle Git?

Everything is built-in, developers can connect to Git, manage branches, commit changes, and revert them directly from the API Maker interface.

What is database masking and why is it useful?

Masking keeps database names consistent across environments. It prevents conflicts when developers push or pull code, so there’s no need to change database names manually.

Are secrets safe when using version control?

Absolutely. Each developer has private secrets that are excluded from Git, protecting sensitive values like credentials and API keys.

Developer Accounts in API Maker offer scalable, secure, and streamlined team collaboration. From isolated workspaces and built-in Git support to database masking and secure secret management, your development workflow moves faster, without compromising control or security.