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Documenting APIs
- I: Introduction to REST APIs
- Section Overview
- Course Overview
- What's new
- Workshop video recordings
- Download PDFs
- Workshop agenda, slides, activities
- Why I developed this course
- About the author
- Introduction to REST API documentation
- What is a REST API?
- Activity: Identify your goals
- Developer Documentation Trends: Survey Results
- Glossary
- II: Using an API like a developer
- Section Overview
- Scenario for using a weather API
- Get authorization keys
- Submit requests through Postman
- curl intro and installation
- Make a curl call
- Understand curl more
- Activity: Use methods with curl
- Analyze the JSON response
- Inspect the JSON from the response payload
- Access and print a specific JSON value
- Dive into dot notation
- III: Documenting API endpoints
- Section overview
- A new endpoint to document
- API reference tutorial overview
- Step 1: Resource description
- Step 2: Endpoints and methods
- Step 3: Parameters
- Step 4: Request example
- Step 5: Response example and schema
- Putting it all together
- Activity: What's wrong with this API reference topic
- Activity: Evaluate API reference docs for core elements
- IV: OpenAPI spec and generated reference docs
- Section overview
- Overview of REST API specification formats
- Introduction to the OpenAPI specification
- Stoplight: Visual modeling tools for creating your spec
- Getting started tutorial: Using Stoplight Studio to create an OpenAPI specification document
- Swagger UI tutorial
- SwaggerHub introduction and tutorial
- Swagger UI Demo
- Integrating Swagger UI with the rest of your docs
- Redocly tutorial -- authoring and publishing API docs with Redocly's command-line tools
- Redoc Community Edition Basic Demo
- V: Step-by-step OpenAPI code tutorial
- Section overview
- OpenAPI tutorial using Swagger Editor and Swagger UI: Overview
- Working in YAML
- Step 1: The openapi object
- Step 2: The info object
- Step 3: The servers object
- Step 4: The paths object
- Step 5: The components object
- Step 6: security object
- Step 7: The tags object
- Step 8: The externalDocs object
- Activity: Create an OpenAPI specification document
- VI: Testing API docs
- VII: Conceptual topics in API docs
- Section overview
- API conceptual topics overview
- API product overviews
- API getting started tutorials
- API authentication and authorization
- API status and error codes
- API rate limiting and thresholds
- API quick reference
- API glossary
- API best practices
- Activity: Complete the SendGrid Getting Started tutorial
- Activity: Assess the conceptual content in your project
- VIII: Code tutorials
- IX: The writing process
- X: Publishing API docs
- Section overview
- Overview for publishing API docs
- Survey of API doc sites
- Design patterns with API doc sites
- Docs-as-code tools
- More about Markdown
- Version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Activity: Manage content in a GitHub wiki
- Activity: Use the GitHub Desktop Client
- Activity: Pull request workflows through GitHub
- Static site generators
- Hosting and deployment options
- Hybrid documentation systems
- Using Oxygen XML with docs-as-code workflows
- Blobr: An API portal that arranges your API's use cases as individual products
- Which tool to choose for API docs — my recommendations
- Jekyll and CloudCannon continuous deployment tutorial
- Case study: Switching tools to docs-as-code
- Tools FAQ
- XI: Thriving in the API doc space
- XII: Native library APIs
- Section overview
- Overview of native library APIs
- Get the sample Java project
- Java crash course
- Activity: Generate a Javadoc from a sample project
- Javadoc tags
- Explore the Javadoc output
- Make edits to Javadoc tags
- Doxygen, a document generator mainly for C++
- Create non-ref docs with native library APIs
- XIII: Processes and methodology
- Section overview
- DX content strategy with developer portals
- Following agile scrum with documentation projects
- Managing large documentation projects
- Managing small documentation requests
- Managing SDK releases
- Documentation kickoff meetings and product demos
- Processes for reviewing documentation
- Maintaining existing documentation
- Collecting feedback post-release
- Managing content from external contributors
- Changing internal doc culture
- Sending doc status reports -- a tool for visibility and relationship building
- Broadcasting your meeting notes to influence a wider audience
- Ensuring documentation coverage with each software release
- XIV: Metrics and measurement
- XV: Additional resources
- Section overview
- Documenting GraphQL APIs
- More REST API activities
- Activity: Get event information using the Eventbrite API
- Activity: Retrieve a gallery using the Flickr API
- Activity: Get wind speed using the Aeris Weather API
- RAML tutorial
- API Blueprint tutorial
- API jeopardy answer key
- What's wrong with this topic answer key
- Menlo Park API workshop video recording
- Denver API workshop video recording
- API doc presentation video recordings
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