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Building your API: Design Mode

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Date Published
Author
Doug Sillars
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1,016
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Language
English
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Summary

Bump aims to simplify API documentation by demonstrating its tool's capabilities through the creation of a Joke API, which allows privileged users to add new jokes and anyone to search, retrieve, and vote on jokes. The process begins with designing an OpenAPI specification using SwaggerHub, starting from a Simple API Template and modifying it to fit the Joke API's needs. Key features include joke identification, categorization, and voting metrics, with endpoints for adding jokes, searching, and voting. Once the API design is finalized, it is uploaded to Bump, where various display settings and navigation options are available to tailor the documentation's presentation, including grouping by path or tag, and matching the color scheme to the company's branding. This blueprint serves as a guide for future development, with the understanding that changes may occur as the actual API is built and integrated with Bump for automatic documentation updates.

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