Interactive API Docs—A Feature of FastAPI
Explore how FastAPI supports automatic interactive API documentation with OpenAPI and Swagger UI. Learn to test API routes, understand parameters, and view responses directly through the built-in UI. This lesson helps you efficiently manage and document your APIs for smoother development and testing.
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Introduction to automatic UI documentation
One of the major benefits of FastAPI is that it is fully compatible with open standards for APIs, OpenAPI and JSON Schema. It provides an automatic UI generated for testing our entire API and its different routes. If you’ve previously used Postman, you’ll be able to see that FastAPI provides the same thing. Any API consumer can visit this UI to test all the routes and see what different parameters, header, body, and so on are required as well as the response ...