OpenAPI for Everybody

It's hard to work on APIs without hearing about OpenAPI.

OpenAPI is an API description format, which is essentially metadata that describes an HTTP API: where it lives, how it works, what data is available, and how it's authenticated. Additional keywords can be used to provide all sorts of validation information, adding a type system to what would otherwise just be arbitrary JSON flying around the internet.

OpenAPI has been around for donkeys years, previously known as Swagger but renamed …

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