Both API Blueprint and Swagger allow you to describe a broad set of API architectures with a design-first approach.
API Blueprint and Swagger UI are primarily classified as “API” and “Documentation as a Service &” tools respectively.
A powerful high-level API design language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs. The goal of the API Blueprint format is to enable the design-first philosophy for REST APIs, however, the format works just as well for documenting existing APIs.
API Blueprint comes with a syntax close to Markdown, MSON and full support of all Apiary tooling and open-source tooling and thus, its syntax is concise yet expressive. Markdown is a lightweight text formatting syntax. MSON is an extension of Markdown for describing data objects.
Swagger allows you to describe the structure of your APIs so that machines can read them. The ability of APIs to describe their own structure is the root of all awesomeness in Swagger. Swagger can also automatically generate client libraries for your API in many languages and explore other possibilities like automated testing. There are a few ways in which Swagger can help drive your API development further:
Looking for an API designer that helps? Our API design tool enables you to design, describe and document RESTful API in a total graphical way. You can design RESTful API easily by creating a simple Class Diagram, like the one below. The graphical design approach, along with our award-winning diagramming interface makes API design simple, straight-forward and error-free.
Without writing a single line of code, an API designer can generate the complete API definition in accordance with the Swagger 2 or API Blueprint specification. The API details all of its resources and operations based totally on your visual API design.
Generate beautiful, interactive API documentation that allows your development team and end consumers to easily get started with your API resources. The visual API documentation makes it easy both for back-end development and client-side consumption.