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What is API Blueprint? A powerful high-level API design language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

What is jsdoc? An API documentation generator for JavaScript. JSDoc 3 is an API documentation generator for JavaScript, similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc. You add documentation comments directly to your source code, right along side the code itself. The JSDoc Tool will scan your source code, and generate a complete HTML documentation website for you.

API Blueprint and jsdoc are primarily classified as "API" and "Documentation as a Service &" tools respectively.

API Blueprint is an open source tool with 7.48K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to API Blueprint's open source repository on GitHub.

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Ecosystem of tools

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Simpler type safe than TypeScript
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No compiler needed
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What is API Blueprint?

API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

What is jsdoc?

JSDoc 3 is an API documentation generator for JavaScript, similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc. You add documentation comments directly to your source code, right along side the code itself. The JSDoc Tool will scan your source code, and generate a complete HTML documentation website for you.

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What are some alternatives to API Blueprint and jsdoc?

RAML

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.

Apiary

It takes more than a simple HTML page to thrill your API users. The right tools take weeks of development. Weeks that apiary.io saves.

Postman

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

OpenAPI

It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.

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