October 2023 Summaries

The APIMatic VS Code extension is designed to help developers validate, lint, and auto-fix their API definition files, generating powerful SDKs and documentation with over 1200 pre-defined rules. It addresses shortcomings of existing tools by providing mandatory standard checks, enforcing compliance with API specification standards like OpenAPI, and offering out-of-the-box lint checks for code generation and general quality. The extension also supports auto-fixing common issues, richer validation experience, merge-aware validation, support for multiple API specification formats, ability to transform API specification format, and better support for APIMatic users. It is currently available in preview mode for APIMatic users and anticipates future changes including improved stability and additional features.

APIMatic.io's improved SDK Publishing feature simplifies the process of generating strongly typed SDKs along with complete API references from OpenAPI definitions. This feature allows API providers to directly publish their SDKs in multiple languages to popular package registries, including Maven, Nuget, npm, Packagist, PyPi, and RubyGems, saving time by automating the publishing process and making SDK installation easier for API consumers. The feature removes bottlenecks such as configuring package publishing details for 6 different languages, compiling SDKs, and publishing them to package registries. It also enables API providers to publish their source code to GitHub simultaneously and update their API Portal with instructions for newly published packages. The SDK Publishing feature provides benefits for both API Providers and Consumers, including increased visibility, improved security, easy installation and setup, developer tool integration, better SDK version management, dependency tracking, and notification of depreciation of SDK versions over time. With the new feature, API providers can easily publish their SDKs to package registries with just a few clicks and an intuitive interface, without investing in engineering resources or ongoing maintenance costs.