« BackOq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec Viewergithub.comSubmitted by der_gopher 10 hours ago
  • RadiozRadioz 7 hours ago

    Nice, I'll find this useful. I reference OpenAPI specs frequently as I practice spec-driven development. The spec is my source of truth for the interface, and I use it to generate both my client and server code. It automates all the request handling boilerplate on both sides, including validation, and provides me a typed interface regardless of which language I'm using. OpenAPI of course limits the types of endpoints you can create, but I find those limits stop you doing things that are strange/surprising. I find that creating APIs that can be expressed nicely in OpenAPI leads to APIs that have a consistent feel with few gotchas and a satisfyingly predictable developer experience.

    • der_gopher 6 hours ago

      100%, also openapi specs are usually huge yaml/json files and it's very hard to navigate them.

    • barryoneill 6 hours ago

      Nice! Just a quick heads up that there's already an 'oq' project

      https://blacksmoke16.github.io/oq/ | https://github.com/Blacksmoke16/oq

      (as I discovered when I installed oq via homebrew to find myself with a different app)

      • der_gopher 6 hours ago

        Yeah, the name is very short to be unique. I don't want to rename yet, as I am ok if there are other projects with the same name as long as there is no legal trademark or something. But yeah, don't install it from the Homebrew, btw I added binaries to releases page so we can just wget it.

      • jamietanna 6 hours ago

        Ooh interesting!

        I see it notes OpenAPI 3.1 support, but it's using kin-openapi which doesn't yet support OpenAPI - how have you managed that?

        (speaking as someone building on top of kin-openapi, as a core maintainer for oapi-codegen)

        • der_gopher 6 hours ago

          Hi Jamie, I've been a big fan of oapi-codegen and your work! I haven't fully tested the 3.1 support yet, but the tool doesn't do much, just list of routes and components, which I believe are similar between 3.0 and 3.1 OAS

        • oulipo2 8 hours ago

          Really cool! would be cool to be able to do the actual call too :)

          • der_gopher 6 hours ago

            I believe it will come to that too.

          • rtk0 8 hours ago

            Love this.