AutoRest is deprecated and will be retired on July 1, 2026.
AutoRest is no longer under active development. No new features, language generators, or plugins will be added.
The recommended successor to AutoRest is TypeSpec — a modern, actively developed API description language and code generation platform.
📌 Deprecation tracking issue for more details: Azure/autorest#5175
Node.js
Recommended:
- VSCode, with the following plugins
- Prettier
- ESLint
- EditorConfig
# Start testserver
autorest-testserver run
# Start testserver at given port
autorest-testserver run --port=<port>
# Start testserver without reseting the coverage. This can be used when you are running the test server multiple times to get the full coverage.
autorest-testserver run --appendCoverage
# Stop testserver
autorest-testserver stop
# Stop testserver running at the given port
autorest-testserver stop --port=<port>
# Sepecify the coverage directory
autorest-testserver run --coverageDirectory=<path>Upload the coverage produce by the autorest testserver.
autorest-testserver-coverage publish \
--coverageDirectory=<path> \
--repo=<repo> \
--ref=<path> \
--githubToken=<ghToken> \
--azStorageAccount=<account> \
--azStorageAccessKey=<azStorageKey>
Clear the coverage folder. --coverageDirectory is optional. It defaults to ./coverage
autorest-testserver-coverage clear [--coverageDirectory=<path>]# Install dependencies
npm install
# Start for dev: Will start the server and automatically restart in case there is changes in the files.
npm run start:dev
# Start for running: Will build and start the server
npm run start
# Format all the files(Required for CI). Use prettier vscode extension(or other editor prettier integration) for on save formatting.
npm run formatSee docs