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Swagger UI vs Wiki.js: What are the differences?
Swagger UI: A Collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation. 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; Wiki.js: A wiki engine running on Node.js and written in JavaScript. It is an open source, modern and powerful wiki app based on Node.js, Git, and Markdown. It runs on the flamingly fast Node.js engine and is optimized to conserve CPU resources.
Swagger UI and Wiki.js can be primarily classified as "Documentation as a Service &" tools.
Some of the features offered by Swagger UI are:
- The UI works in any development environment, be it locally or in the web
- Allow end developers to effortlessly interact and try out every single operation your API exposes for easy consumption
- Quickly find and work with resources and endpoints with neatly categorized documentation
On the other hand, Wiki.js provides the following key features:
- Page Permissions
- Authentication Backends
- Host Blocking
Swagger UI and Wiki.js are both open source tools. Swagger UI with 16.1K GitHub stars and 6.85K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Wiki.js with 5.39K GitHub stars and 722 GitHub forks.
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?"
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).
PostmanI 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.
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.
Pros of Swagger UI
- Open Source47
- Can execute api calls from the documentation34
- Free to use29
- Customizable19
- Easy to implement in .Net14
- Mature, clean spec13
- API Visualization12
- Coverage9
- Scaffolding6
- Easy to use6
- Vibrant and active community5
- Elegant4
- Adopted by tm forum api3
- Clear for React2
- Api1
- Can deploy API to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda1
Pros of Wiki.js
- Fast speed by node.js1
- Open Source1
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Cons of Swagger UI
- Need to learn YAML and RAML3
- Documentation doesn't look that good2
- Doesn't generate code snippets in different languages1
- You don’t actually get in-line error highlighting1
- Does not support hypermedia1
Cons of Wiki.js
- No tree structure by default1
