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Benefits of Using the OpenAPI (Swagger) Specification for Your APIs

4 years ago dzone.com

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by GraphQL already did this at its inception by coming up with a whole specification that describes how APIs of its type should behave.

It’s a language agnostic way to describe a RESTful API, that can be used to generate code-stubs and documentation.

They can be used to generate automatically: OpenAPI is used and backed by many large companies.

The OpenAPI Initiative is part of the Linux Foundation, which makes it more trustworthy and likely to remain supported.