rapidoc/README.md

RapiDoc - Open API spec viewer with built in console

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# RapiDoc
Custom Element for Open-API spec viewing

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## Features
- Supports Swagger 2.0, OpenAPI 3.x.x 
- Works with any framework or with no framework
- Allows making API calls
- Better Usability, 
  - all Models and Examples are expanded by default, eliminates the need to click and reveal.
  - Request fields are pre-populated with sample data
  - Takes only one click to make an API call
  - Request and response can be placed side-by-side for easy comparison
- Branding and Personalization features makes it easy to follow any style guide
  - Comes with 2 Themes (Dark and Light)
  - Replace default logo with yours
  - Typography, allows changing fonts
  - Allows changing text-color, button-color, header-color and color of other UI elements
- Plenty of customization options 
  - Add external contents at the top and bottom of the document,  you may add images, link, text, forms etc
  - Allows disabling API calling feature
  - Hide the header, so the user can't load any other OpenAPI Spec
  - Hide Authentication and provide your own pre-generated api-key 
  - Embed it inside another HTML document
  - Use it inside another framework (react, vue, angular, lit-element)
  - Use JavaScript to change its attributes, and it will react to those changes
  - Style the element with standard css (change padding, position, border, margin )
- Lightweight and fast
- Load local json spec from the disk
- Supported on Chrome, FireFox and Safari. (Not yet tested on Edge)


## Documentation
[Check out the usage and demos](https://rapi-doc.github.io/RapiDoc/)

## Examples
[Examples and Test cases](https://rapi-doc.github.io/RapiDoc/list.html)


## Build Process
```bash
# Clone / Download the project then
npm install

# build will generate rapidoc-min.js, this is the only file you will need.
# use it in the script tag of your html <script type="text/javascript" src="rapidoc-min.js"></script></body>
npm run build 

# for development use yarn serve (this will start an webserver at port 8080, then navigate to localhost:8080) 
npm run serve
```

## Roadmap
- ✅ Upgrade to use `lit 2`
- Pre Rendering / Server Side Rendering (SSR) of RapiDoc
- Improve PDF generation of OpenAPI spec Using RapiPDF
- Create a Command Line interface (CLI) to make it automation friendly
- Add localization support
- Follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2)
- Improve Homepage, Documentation and Examples
- Create groundwork for automated testing
- Create a live playground (Something like swagger editor)
- Create a short animation/video to show how RapiDoc/RapiPDF works