API Design · Junior · Question 37 of 75

What is OpenAPI?

1A public list of free APIs
✓Correct answer: A standard format (YAML or JSON) to describe HTTP APIs: paths, parameters, schemas, responses and auth
3A JavaScript HTTP client

Explanation

From an OpenAPI document you can render docs (Swagger UI, Redoc), generate clients and servers, and validate requests.

Further reading

OpenAPI Specification ↗

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