Building APIs with Swagger and the OpenAPI Specification

- [Kevin] Today's most successful digital platforms are architected with APIs that expose core business capabilities for internal and external developers that build new applications at scale. Well-crafted APIs are more widely adopted by the developer community, giving their creators a competitive advantage in terms of innovation and new products. The key to developing successful APIs is using tools like Swagger to create better designs and documentation so that it is effortless for developers to use the API. Hi, I'm Kevin Bowersox. I've been a full stack developer for over 10 years, and I have seen how Swagger can build higher-quality APIs that gain adoption. Swagger helps you design, build, and document your APIs using a design-first approach so that web, mobile, and third-party applications can quickly integrate and consume their core capabilities and data. In this course, I'll show you how to build API definitions with the OpenAPI Specification that accelerate delivery of APIs through generated documentation, client SDKs, server stubs, and API server virtualization. We'll use Swagger's open source tools to master key sections of the OpenAPI Specification. Then we will advance to SwaggerHub and learn how its team collaboration tools streamline the API development lifecycle. To cap off the course, we'll complete a project that uses an API definition file to rapidly establish an API-based solution that spans multiple languages, frameworks, and cloud-based services. So if you are ready to build better APIs with higher adoption, then let's get started.