ServiceStack

Opt in mechanism to generate ServiceStack API documentation

For one of our clients we built an API driven platform which could be consumed in two ways, either as a service using our front end or by integrating third party UI interfaces with the API. As one could guess API documentation plays a vital role in usability of such systems. We use ServiceStack as our web services framework and API documentation generation is built into the framework. The generated documentation is a JSON file that conforms to Open API, which is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing restful web services.

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