RapiDoc

Custom Element for Open-API spec viewing

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Features

• Supports Swagger 2.0, OpenAPI 3.x.x
• Works with any framework or with no framework
• Allows making API calls
• Better Usability,
  • all Models and Examples are expanded by default, eliminates the need to click and reveal.
  • Request fields are pre-populated with sample data
  • Takes only one click to make an API call
  • Request and response can be placed side-by-side for easy comparison
• Branding and Personalization features makes it easy to follow any style guide
  • Comes with 2 Themes (Dark and Light)
  • Replace default logo with yours
  • Typography, allows changing fonts
  • Allows changing text-color, button-color, header-color and color of other UI elements
• Plenty of customization options
  • Add external contents at the top and bottom of the document, you may add images, link, text, forms etc
  • Allows disabling API calling feature
  • Hide the header, so the user can't load any other OpenAPI Spec
  • Hide Authentication and provide your own pre-generated api-key
  • Embed it inside another HTML document
  • Use it inside another framework (react, vue, angular, lit-element)
  • Use JavaScript to change its attributes, and it will react to those changes
  • Style the element with standard css (change padding, position, border, margin )
• Lightweight and fast
• Load local json spec from the disk
• Supported on Chrome, FireFox and Safari. (Not yet tested on Edge)

Documentation

Check out the usage and demos

Examples

Examples and Test cases

Build Process

# Clone / Download the project then
npm install

# build will generate rapidoc-min.js, this is the only file you will need.
# use it in the script tag of your html <script type="text/javascript" src="rapidoc-min.js"></script></body>
npm run build 

# for development use yarn serve (this will start an webserver at port 8080, then navigate to localhost:8080) 
npm run serve

Roadmap

• ✅ Upgrade to use lit 2
• Pre Rendering / Server Side Rendering (SSR) of RapiDoc
• Improve PDF generation of OpenAPI spec Using RapiPDF
• Create a Command Line interface (CLI) to make it automation friendly
• Add localization support
• Follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2)
• Improve Homepage, Documentation and Examples
• Create groundwork for automated testing
• Create a live playground (Something like swagger editor)
• Create a short animation/video to show how RapiDoc/RapiPDF works