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RAML vs OpenAPI: What are the differences?
Developers describe RAML as "RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing". RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly. On the other hand, OpenAPI is detailed as "Allows the owner of a network-accessible service to give universal access". It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
RAML and OpenAPI can be primarily classified as "API" tools.
OpenAPI is an open source tool with 15.4K GitHub stars and 5.46K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenAPI's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, RAML has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 52 developers stacks; compared to OpenAPI, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of OpenAPI
- The most popular api spec1
- Easy to learn1
- Supports versioning1
- Supports authentication1
- Supports caching1
Pros of RAML
- API Specification15
- Human Readable7
- API Documentation6
- Design Patterns & Code Reuse3
- API Modeling2
- Automatic Generation of Mule flow2
- Unit Testing2
- API Mocking1
- SDK Generation1
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