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Integrate Open API (Swagger) With Node.js And Express
This article will explain how to integrate swagger (Open API) with Node.js and Express. Swagger makes it very easy for a backend developer to document, test, and explain API endpoints he/she’s been working on a front-end developer or anyone looking to consume those endpoints.
Setup
Before we get started on this we should have few things installed in our machine.
- Visual Studio Code -> Visual Studio Code
- Node.js -> Node.js
Source Code
Required Packages
npm init
npm install swagger-jsdoc swagger-ui-express express nodemon
Express — For Server
Swagger — For API’s Documentation in UI
Nodemon — will use this to restart our server automatically whenever we make changes to our files.
After installing the required packages let’s add the new file to set up the Swagger configuration and as well adding the API endpoints in…
