prism VS spectral

Since the OpenAPI can effectively describe our resources, we can reuse it to generate a dummy server that can be later used for development and testing purposes without bootstrapping any actual services. There some tools available that can help us with this task, such as Prism, OpenAPI Mock, OpenAPI Backend and the MSW library we have already seen.

I use https://stoplight.io/open-source/prism with x-faker properties in my OpenAPI specs to mock APIs with dynamic content.

Haven't tried it yet, but discovered https://microcks.io/ yesterday. Otherwise https://stoplight.io/open-source/prism is pretty good

Prism does more than mocking; You can also use it to inspect any discrepancies between your API implementation and the API spec. You can find out more on their GitHub page:https://github.com/stoplightio/prism

use a mock API server that can read openapi spec (e.g. Prism)

prism

What about skipping the DB all together and using OpenAPI w/ a Mock Server for local development https://openapi.tools/#mock personally like https://stoplight.io/open-source/prism

Pretty simple to run [prism](https://github.com/stoplightio/prism) locally for free.

I recently started playing with Spectral for validating OpenAPI & AsyncAPI specifications against a common set of rules.

In this post, I show how to use Spectral to check if only lowercase alphanumeric characters are used in the keys of OpenAPI paths.

You can also use linters such as Stoplight's spectral to make sure the API specification is looking good.

Spectral

Would you count API Linting? I use spectral for maintaining API standards on our application: https://github.com/stoplightio/spectral