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API Umbrella vs Swagger UI: What are the differences?

Developers describe API Umbrella as "Open source API management platform used by api.data.gov". API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API.. On the other hand, Swagger UI is detailed as "dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation". 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.

API Umbrella and Swagger UI are primarily classified as "API" and "Documentation as a Service &" tools respectively.

API Umbrella is an open source tool with 1.31K GitHub stars and 243 GitHub forks. Here's a link to API Umbrella's open source repository on GitHub.

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StackShare Editors
| 5 upvotes · 352.6K views
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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 · 380.9K views
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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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Jadenko
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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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Sadik Ay
Backend Engineer · | 2 upvotes · 351.9K views
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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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Pros of API Umbrella
Pros of Swagger UI
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    • 49
      Open Source
    • 34
      Can execute api calls from the documentation
    • 29
      Free to use
    • 19
      Customizable
    • 14
      Easy to implement in .Net
    • 13
      Mature, clean spec
    • 12
      API Visualization
    • 9
      Coverage
    • 6
      Scaffolding
    • 6
      Easy to use
    • 5
      Vibrant and active community
    • 4
      Elegant
    • 3
      Adopted by tm forum api
    • 2
      Clear for React
    • 1
      Api
    • 1
      Can deploy API to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda

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    Cons of API Umbrella
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      • 3
        Need to learn YAML and RAML
      • 2
        Documentation doesn't look that good
      • 1
        Doesn't generate code snippets in different languages
      • 1
        You don’t actually get in-line error highlighting
      • 1
        Does not support hypermedia

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      What is API Umbrella?

      API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs. It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API.

      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

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

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      What are some alternatives to API Umbrella and Swagger UI?
      Kong
      Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.
      Gravitee.io
      It is a flexible, lightweight and blazing-fast open source API Platform that helps your organization control finely who, when and how users access your APIs.
      JavaScript
      JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
      Git
      Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
      GitHub
      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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