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Restlet Studio vs Swagger UI: What are the differences?

Introduction: In the realm of API documentation and testing tools, Restlet Studio and Swagger UI are popular choices. Below are the key differences between the two platforms.

  1. Editor Interface: Restlet Studio offers a visual drag-and-drop interface for designing APIs, while Swagger UI relies on writing YAML or JSON specifications for API design and documentation.

  2. Support for Multiple Protocols: Unlike Swagger UI which primarily supports Swagger/OpenAPI specifications, Restlet Studio supports various protocols like HTTP, REST, SOAP, and GraphQL out of the box.

  3. Customization Options: Swagger UI allows for extensive customization through themes and plugins, while Restlet Studio offers limited options for customization.

  4. Mock Server Functionality: Restlet Studio provides a built-in mock server feature allowing users to simulate API responses, which is not available in Swagger UI by default.

  5. Collaboration Tools: Restlet Studio offers collaboration features such as team workspaces and version control, whereas Swagger UI focuses more on individual API documentation.

  6. Pricing Model: Swagger UI is an open-source tool that can be self-hosted for free, while Restlet Studio offers a freemium model with additional paid features.

In Summary, the key differences between Restlet Studio and Swagger UI lie in their editor interface, protocol support, customization options, mock server functionality, collaboration tools, and pricing model.

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From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

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Jagdeep Singh
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I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

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Jadenko
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I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

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Sadik Ay
Backend Engineer · | 2 upvotes · 347K views
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I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

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Pros of Restlet Studio
Pros of Swagger UI
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    Powerful & intuitive API designer
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    GitHub Integration
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    Easy to used
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    Open Source
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    Can execute api calls from the documentation
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    Free to use
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    Customizable
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    Easy to implement in .Net
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    Mature, clean spec
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    API Visualization
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    Coverage
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    Scaffolding
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    Easy to use
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    Vibrant and active community
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    Elegant
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    Adopted by tm forum api
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    Clear for React
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    Api
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    Can deploy API to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda

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Cons of Restlet Studio
Cons of Swagger UI
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    Opaque Pricing Model
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    Need to learn YAML and RAML
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    Documentation doesn't look that good
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    Doesn't generate code snippets in different languages
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    You don’t actually get in-line error highlighting
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    Does not support hypermedia

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What is Restlet Studio?

Packaged as a Chrome extension and accessible from any modern web browser, Restlet Studio instantly provides to any developer powerful API crafting capabilities. Through an intuitive interface, developers can visually define all the elements of a web API, and automatically generate the client SDK and server skeleton of their API.

What is Swagger UI?

Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API

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    What are some alternatives to Restlet Studio and Swagger UI?
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    OpenAPI
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    Retrofit
    Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface
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