Alex Barron

Prism is a free, open source tool created by Stoplight that enables developers to quickly create mock API servers using only an OpenAPI document. Prism parses your OpenAPI spec to understand your endpoints, schemas, and examples to spin up a local server you can make API calls to using whatever

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OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) is an open-source tool to standardize specification of REST APIs. This standardization enables programmatic parsing of an API's structure and syntax to automatically generate documentation, client libraries, and even server code. Think of OpenAPI as the source of truth for your API; from schemas to

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OpenAPI is a standardized technical specification to make describing the capabilities of the API unambiguous for both humans and machines. Why this is desirable requires a brief tangent on APIs and the problem of asymmetric information. APIs are like contracts. The terms of the contract must be clear and unambiguous

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