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Open-source tools

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- [Instructor] Swagger's open source tools are a great way to design, document and build definitions for RESTful web services. Let's take a closer look at these tools. There are three tools within the open source toolbox, the Swagger Editor, Swagger UI, and Swagger Codegen. The editor acts like an IDE for building API definition files. Swagger UI can consume API definition files to produce interactive API documentation. Finally, Swagger Codegen can build API clients or server stubs in several languages based off of the API definition files. The most important takeaway is that Swagger's tooling centers around API definition files that conform to the open API specification. On the Swagger website is a live demo of each of these tools. Let's take a closer look at the demos to get more familiar with the tooling. The first tool we'll look at is the Swagger Editor. You'll notice on the left side of the screen, we have the editor itself. It provides us with auto completion features that we…

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