swagger-ui VS prism

Good documentation is vital for any API. Consider using tools like Swagger or Postman to create interactive documentation.

1. Use tools like Swagger or Postman to auto-generate docs

This project also comes with an index.html that can be served statically and it also interacts with the Swagger UI official bundle that is contained inside the dist folder.

Website: https://swagger.io

This template was built using a variety of powerful frameworks and tools, including: .NET, Ngrok, JWT (JSON Web Tokens), Entity Framework, AutoMapper, FluentValidation, Flurl, Humanizer, libphonenumber-csharp, MailKit, OAuth, Serilog, Twilio, Swagger, React.js, React Native, React Navigation, Axios, Expo Dev, Lodash, NativeWind, React Hook Form, Zustand, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Android Studio, Git, GitHub Copilot, Node.js, React Native Paper, NextUI

curl -X GET https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/releases/tag/v5.17.14

Automated Documentation Generators: Tools like Swagger for APIs, Javadoc for Java, and Sphinx for Python automatically generate documentation based on code annotations, comments, or metadata.

An API is like a contract between a client and a server or between two applications. Before testing the implementation, it must be ensured that the contract is correct by checking the specification (e.g. Swagger or OpenAPI). For Rest APIs, it is important that all HTTP REST semantics and principles are adhered to. This is all the more important for publicly accessible APIs so that all functionalities can continue to be guaranteed after updates.

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.