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Ask HN: What's the fastest way to produce an API?
8 points by thesurlydev on Aug 30, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
What tools or processes do you use to go from an idea to a working API including an OpenAPI specification?

I've done this many times using code generation, etc. but still find the iteration time to be too long. Ideally, I'd like to get close to the speed of thought.

Bonus points if you can point to a code repository as an example.



Fastest? Do a crappy API.

Otherwise, this is a good guideline:

http://sweng.the-davies.net/Home/rustys-api-design-manifesto


Quality - Speed - Price

Choose two.

Yup.


I've built a toolset and am putting the final touches on potentially exactly what you need, I'm looking for a few early adopters and some feedback

every API is serverless, typescript, openapi, has GitHub CI/CD, and runs locally and on AWS lambda

shoot me a message and I'd love to show you around: christian (at) scaffold.ly


I've heard good things about FastAPI




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