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The API works locally, but production has a proxy, a rate limiter, or a CDN. Your docs must reflect reality. If your production API requires a specific X-Request-ID header that your local dev does not, document it.
Our API uses standard HTTP status codes to indicate the success or failure of a request. The following status codes are used:
This is the "dictionary" of your API. For every endpoint (e.g., POST /v1/users ), the docs must list: api docs
API documentation serves several critical purposes:
Descriptions of required and optional fields, including data types (string, integer, boolean). The API works locally, but production has a
API documentation is vital for several reasons:
If you’re still not convinced that API docs are worth serious investment, consider these numbers: Our API uses standard HTTP status codes to
Nothing frustrates a developer more than a 400 Bad Request with no explanation. Great API docs provide a table of HTTP status codes (200, 201, 400, 401, 403, 404, 429, 500) and the specific error object the API returns for each.
Provide examples of the error response payloads returned by your API.