If you are reading this, then you too have been looking to create something as heavy as an SDK in less than a minute. Well, let’s find out how it can be done. Building an SDK from scratch To build an SDK, we have a few concrete steps: Design of the SDK Implement the design […]
APIMatic makes your developers love your APIs. We have a whole set of features designed with just one purpose in head: “API consumption at the developer’s fingertips”. This blog gives a quick insight into the process of getting started with APIMatic right away. What is APIMatic? APIMatic is a developer experience platform that transforms your […]
‘Docs as code’ refers to the practice of writing documentation using the same tools and processes that developers use to write code. This means that documentation is : Authored using text files such as Markdown or LaTeX Version controlled using Git Updated by creating pull requests Published using CI/CD workflows Keeping Everything in Sync with […]
Working with APIs, I come across a lot of interesting feature requests. Among those, oneOf was something that a lot of the developers want, but scarce information is found on the topic. This blog will take you through my journey of how I acquainted myself with the role of “oneOf” in OpenAPI specifications. What is […]
Last week, we wrapped our API Developer Experience Meetup in San Francisco. Special thanks to Ashish Shubham from ThoughtSpot for sharing how to provide a good developer experience for SDKs, and to Joyce Lin for having us over at the new Postman office. The meetup included two talks from Adeel Ali, co-founder of APIMatic, and […]
Whenever you’re dealing with APIs, you need to provide more than just an API itself. Delivering a great developer experience for the API through a comprehensive developer portal is the key to bridging the connection between a developer and an API provider. Defining Developer Experience Developer experience tells us how developers interact with the API […]
While providing API documentation and SDKs with your API makes developer onboarding faster, it can be a challenge to keep up when your API is constantly evolving. You need to manually publish the documentation or SDKs on every API update, which can be a time consuming and repetitive task, prone to delays in releases. To […]
You create a great API and invest resources, time, and energy into it, but it turns out it’s not being adopted as much as you had anticipated. While your first instinct might be to investigate the API, there could be other factors at play here.. For starters, is your API documentation in-sync with the API? […]
Your mobile/Android application can talk to any API with the low-code approach through client SDKs. Client SDKs are independent internal libraries for your application that focus on the end-to-end flow of an API. They cut down the manual process of writing a whole client and related components, providing you with the best developer experience, and […]
