Swagger for Dummies

[Laurie Anderson]

If a person is computer literate, but programmer illiterate, how would one describe Swagger and what exactly is an API? An advise and information accepted (unless you're only giving rude comments.) Thanks!

[Ron Ratovsky]

An API is a general term to describe the way for computer software (though could be hardware) components to communicate with each other, whether they live on the same machine or remotely (such as client/server applications).

 

OpenAPI is a specification used to describe APIs that are based on HTTP, which today drive the majority of applications. The OpenAPI used to be known as Swagger.

 

Swagger, today, is a set of tools that take an API definition in the OpenAPI format, and allow you to do various things with it, including documentation, testing, code generation and more.

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