API documentation
Have you ever tried to assemble a piece of equipment you bought from a store without looking through the manual? There is a high probability you will have done so deliberately. You smartly think it will be easy to put together, and most times, you get burned in this process of trial and error and eventually mess things up.
Manuals are a good resource meant to ease you through a product’s features and functionality. API documentation is no different from manuals for guidance, a set of instructions, references, or even tutorial materials that can enhance developers’ understanding of your API.
Why is API documentation a critical component of your API? We will examine a few reasons and dive into using the Postman client tool to document your API so that other developers can understand what it is all about and how to use it. We will use a very simplistic case study with the venues CRUD operation we examined in the preceding section.
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