API documentation is a crucially important part of ensuring your API is useful and usable. Every time a developer finds exactly what they need in an API's reference, a puppy gets adopted. This repo's ...

Slate helps you create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation. The example above was created with Slate. Check it out at slatedocs.github.io/slate. Everything on a single page — Gone are ...

To get a feeling for the docs generated by Swagger, play around with the Swagger UI Pet store server example, shown in Figure 2. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 2. Petstore API Documentation ...

Sample API documentation from Theneo. Image Credits: Theneo Stripe-like API docs. Theneo co-founder and CEO Ana Robakidze said that she’d worked on hundreds of APIs in a previous role heading up ...

Abstract: Code examples are essential resources for learning application programming interfaces (APIs). The shortage of such examples can be a major learning obstacle for API users. Writing and ...

Consequently, REST API developers need to know the cost vs. benefit of providing usage examples in the documentation to prioritize the documentation efforts. To this end, we have performed a ...

Everyone appreciates good documentation -- when they need it, anyway -- but creating and maintaining that documentation sure feels like a chore sometimes. I've been researching Web API documentation ...