API Design openapi recommended
OpenAPI Documentation Patterns
Design and maintain OpenAPI specifications with code generation and validation.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
OpenAPI: Use OpenAPI 3.1 (JSON Schema compatible). Generate types from spec (openapi-typescript). Validate requests/responses against schema. Use $ref for reusable components. Document all error responses. Include examples for every endpoint.
Use When
- REST API development
- API-first design
- Client SDK generation
- API documentation
Skip When
- GraphQL APIs
- Internal-only APIs
- Prototyping
OpenAPI Documentation Patterns
Design and maintain OpenAPI specifications with code generation and validation.