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Gitbook vs Swagger UI: What are the differences?
### Introduction
Key differences between Gitbook and Swagger UI:
1. **Application Purpose**: Gitbook is primarily used for creating documentation and knowledge bases, whereas Swagger UI is designed for visualizing and interacting with APIs.
2. **Customizability**: Gitbook offers more flexibility in terms of customization with themes, plugins, and branding options, while Swagger UI has limited customization capabilities.
3. **Input Format**: Gitbook uses Markdown language for content creation, making it accessible to non-technical users, whereas Swagger UI requires users to work with OpenAPI Specification (formerly Swagger Specification), which may be more technical.
4. **Integration**: Gitbook allows integration with various platforms and services for content management, collaboration, and analytics, whereas Swagger UI is mainly focused on API documentation and does not offer extensive integrations.
5. **Hosting Options**: Gitbook provides hosting services for documentation projects, making it easier for users to publish and share their content, while Swagger UI needs to be hosted by users or integrated into their own web applications.
6. **Community Support**: Gitbook has a larger community with more resources for assistance, updates, and community-driven plugins, compared to Swagger UI which has a more specialized user base.
In Summary, Gitbook and Swagger UI differ in their application purpose, customizability, input format, integration options, hosting solutions, and community support.
Advice on Gitbook and Swagger UI
StackShare Editors
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?"
Replies (3)
Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 376.4K 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).
Jadenko
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.
Sadik Ay
Backend Engineer · | 2 upvotes · 347.4K views
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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Learn MorePros of Gitbook
Pros of Swagger UI
Pros of Gitbook
- Prueba6
- Integrated high-quality editor4
Pros of Swagger UI
- Open Source49
- Can execute api calls from the documentation34
- Free to use29
- Customizable19
- Easy to implement in .Net14
- Mature, clean spec13
- API Visualization12
- Coverage9
- Scaffolding6
- Easy to use6
- Vibrant and active community5
- Elegant4
- Adopted by tm forum api3
- Clear for React2
- Api1
- Can deploy API to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda1
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Cons of Gitbook
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Cons of Gitbook
- No longer Git or Open1
- Just sync with GitHub1
Cons of Swagger UI
- Need to learn YAML and RAML3
- Documentation doesn't look that good2
- Doesn't generate code snippets in different languages1
- You don’t actually get in-line error highlighting1
- Does not support hypermedia1
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What is Gitbook?
It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.
What is Swagger UI?
Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API
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What are some alternatives to Gitbook and Swagger UI?
Sphinx
It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.
Confluence
Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.
Jekyll
Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Google Docs
It is a word processor included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google. It brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs.
GitHub Pages
Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.