redoc VS drf-yasg

ReDoc Interactive Demo

ReDoc focuses on simplicity and readability, presenting the API documentation in a user-friendly format. It supports dark mode, multiple languages, and offers a seamless browsing experience for API consumers.

There are a few other tools out there that are at least marginally better than the default Swagger UI such as ReDoc (https://github.com/Redocly/redoc).

When we redid the Mux docs (https://docs.mux.com/api-reference) we actually just decided to build our own renderer. It really wasn't as bad as you might think, at build time we pull in the JSON version of our OAS spec and render it as a static build in our Nextjs app. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't trivial, but the benefit of having complete control over the output has been well worth it.

Redoc: http://localhost:8080/redoc

ReDoc is a tool that's similar to Swagger UI. It also takes an OAS and renders an interactive HTML page with full API documentation details; however, it has a notable difference.

take a look

Redoc is an open source tool to generate API reference documentation websites from OpenAPI definitions.

FastAPI for Python has an awesome way of doing this. It comes with two choices: Swagger and Redoc, the former being more interactive while the latter is (IMO) more visually appealing. I'm sure you could implement one of these using Spring.

Starlite has substantially enhanced OpenAPI (3.1) documentation - in fact, its the most complete autogenerated schema around, and it ships with Redoc, Swagger-UI and Stoplight-Elements static sites.

I believe drf-yasg what you need. You can create a schema manually and define request and response types for your small API.

Check this out: https://drf-yasg.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

There's also the caveat of having different API documentation for both the frontend solution and the API-only solution, since I don't want to expose the frontend-specific endpoints to the API-only endpoints, but I think that might just take some time playing around with swagger: https://drf-yasg.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Swagger and OpenAPI capabilities using drf-yasg, where you can only see endpoints and Swagger docs if you have a valid Token

The major apps are news and accounts. While the former handles almost all the physical functionalities of the system, the latter only does user stuff. The api app exposes the data for consumption. It is documented using drf-yasg, a Swagger generation tool implemented without using the schema generation provided by Django Rest Framework. The api has a token-based authentication which requires that all POST requests must provide a token to be accepted, otherwise a not too interesting response:

Our RESTful API was actually the easiest to document, because we were able to rely on third-party libraries from the start. It was a Python Django and Django REST Framework project that leveraged the drf-yasg OpenAPI generator library to create OpenAPI and Swagger compatible documentation.

This post will go through how to document your DRF APIs using https://github.com/axnsan12/drf-yasg/ package.