Generating API Documentation
Explore how to create basic but essential API documentation using the OpenAPI Specification. Learn to generate HTML documentation with SwaggerHub and use tools like ReDocly for neat, developer-friendly API docs. This lesson helps you provide clear endpoint, parameter, and schema information, essential for both server and client developers to work with your API.
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API documentation
No matter how well we design our API, both server developers and API client developers need some level of documentation in order to understand and use our API. And OpenAPI Specification has some really nice support for generating simple documentation.
API documentation is very much along the lines of technical documentation—it only includes the set of endpoints and associated parameters, request bodies, response bodies, and schemas we included in our document. There is no extended prose covering ...