swagger-typescript-api VS awesome-vite

RESTful APIs via swagger-typescript-api

TypeScript API generator via Swagger scheme

You said it yourself — the “official” generator is awful and very hard to modify or extend (well, you didn’t say that, but I’m saying it) and while there are many alternatives, they’re not always easy to find. I had some success with swagger-typescript-api[1], but eventually got tired of it and wrote my own generator. Despite looking around quite a bit at what’s available, I never heard of openapi-codegen, which looks quite good.

[1]: https://github.com/acacode/swagger-typescript-api

A lot of APIs nowadays have a Swagger / OpenAPI spec. You can autogenerate types from that using tools like swagger-typescript-api.

With such a contract your BE team should provide a https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/ where the API definition can easily be viewed and tested. Also you can use generators to basically generate a boilerplate (types for all models, functions for all requests) for the entire API based on a contract: https://github.com/acacode/swagger-typescript-api This his already saved me months of work.. great tool.

If your backend is using Swagger, I'd highly recommend using the package swagger-typescript-api. It auto-generates your types and endpoints for you, based on a swagger.json file, which then simplifies where I store my API calls. The flexibility of this is that I can use these API calls in components, classes, Vuex, etc., and I'm not tied to something that I have to maintain as a UI dev.

If your backend is able to generate Swagger/OpenAPI JSON, you can use https://github.com/acacode/swagger-typescript-api to generate both TypeScript interfaces and an API client from the Swagger JSON.

Vite is a modern front-end build tool that significantly improves the development experience with its fast cold server start and hot module replacement. It leverages native ES modules and is optimized for speed and efficiency.

🔨 Vite ⚡

https://github.com/vitejs/awesome-vite#react

I suggest Vite community templates https://github.com/vitejs/awesome-vite

here

I saw Vite but not sure how easy it is to switch to that from an existing project.

I think most around here currently recommend Vite for a quick up and running SPA. If you'd like some tooling already set up, you can check out some of the community made templates at awesome vite.

It is super easy to get started with Vite and there is really no hard learning curve either. If you want to learn more about all the awesome things Vite can do, Check out this repo.

Vite has templates and plugins that you can install as project dependencies or use them. You can find a list of that and more here.