This repository demonstrates convenient workflow for developing both an API and its documentation in an effective way. We integrate several tools supporting the Open API specification. (aka Swagger specification)

Main actors:

• restify - Simple API server
• swagger-jsdoc - Reads jsdoc comments and generates a re-usable swagger.json specification
• swagger-ui - Takes the output of swagger-jsdoc and displays beautiful documentation pages
• browser-sync - Listens for changes in the folder with Swagger UI documentation and reloads on changes

This toolchain is highly simplified, because it focuses on swagger-jsdoc and browser-sync as means to facilitate you, API experts, be productive. If gulp, grunt or webpack are already present in your existing toolchain, it's a matter of configuring them a bit to take all benefits of what is shown here.

The aim of this project is to demonstrate an effective workflow of building an API-first project with live documentation which comes from code.

It basically shows how inter-connected watch tasks can work together letting you focus on your job while all the auto-generation happen in the background.

Read this article for detailed explanations.

// Develop the API server with nodemon
$ npm run api:develop

// Document the API with swagger-jsdoc in watch mode
$ npm run api:document

// Do both at the same time
$ npm run api

// Develop the Swagger UI documentation
$ npm run docs:develop

Only npm run docs will do the same at this stage of the project.

Standard is used for standardizing the JavaScript part.

$ npm run lint:js

Only npm run lint will also work just fine at this stage of the project.

Hint: configuring WebStorm/PhpStorm worths spending the time.

All the code except Swagger UI modifications under /api-docs folder are licensed under MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.

The Swagger UI modifications under /api-docs are licensed separately under Apache License, Version 2.0 with LICENSE.txt included in the folder. (Which is an override on top of Smart Bear's original LICENSE.