API Descriptions as Production Code
Lots of developers are aware they can use API descriptions for docs and mocking, but they often have this concern about “keeping specs in sync with code”. Learn how to reuse these description docs to drastically simplify validation, in client-side, server-side, and even at the API gateway.
Track: Back-end
Level: Beginner
On-demand video: No
Phil Sturgeon creates API Design tools for Stoplight.io, and writes articles and books about pragmatic API development and systems architecture. He has contributed to countless open-source projects, like the JSON Schema, OpenAPI, The League of Extraordinary Packages, PHP The Right Way, PHP-FIG, CodeIgniter, FuelPHP, PyroCMS, and more recently a lot of Green Tech projects. He loves bicycle rides. |