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From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

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Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 352.7K views

I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

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Sadik Ay
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I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

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I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

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Pros of Apiary
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    Easy to use
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    Free to use
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    Free
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    Collaboration
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    Dashboard
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    Customization
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    30 Days Trial
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    Documentation
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    Validate API Documentation
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    API explorer
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    Clean syntax
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    Provisioning
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    Shared API blueprint templates
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    Github integration helps with collaboration
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    Swagger and API blueprint import
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    API explorer
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    Developers on our API are saying how they love our docs
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    Easy and customizable
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    Great UI
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    Looks great and is fun to use
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    It's friggin awesome
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      Dead
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      Support is awful
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      No backup and restore capability
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      Important parts of the CSS are locked
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      Document structure is severely restricted
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      Full of bugs
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      No notifications of edits by other users
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      Supports only two documents plus a blog
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      Does not support pre-request scripts
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      Random pages display content of other pages instead
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      Review and comment functionality is hard to work with
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      Navigation in user-facing copy is spotty
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      All admins have full editing rights

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    What is Apiary?

    It takes more than a simple HTML page to thrill your API users. The right tools take weeks of development. Weeks that apiary.io saves.

    What is Gelato.io?

    Gelato.io is a SaaS tool for creating API documentation and developer portals.

    What is ReadMe.io?

    It is an easy-to-use tool to help you build out documentation! Each documentation site that you publish is a project where there is space for documentation, interactive API reference guides, a changelog, and much more.

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