api-blueprint is a markdown-based API design language and specification standard used to define the structure, behavior, and data schemas of HTTP web services. It provides a formal method for mapping HTTP methods to resources and defining payload validation rules through a machine-readable syntax. The project functions as a blueprint for creating interactive technical documentation and functional mock servers. These tools transform design specifications into human-readable guides and simulated backend environments to enable integration testing before implementation. The language covers API m
apidoc is a source-code API documentation generator that parses specialized annotations within comments to automatically create a searchable API documentation website. It functions as an annotation-based API parser and a static documentation site generator, extracting definitions directly from the codebase to maintain a synchronized reference. The tool is designed as a multi-language parser, using configurable regular expressions to extract metadata from various programming languages. It can also serve as a JSON API definition exporter, converting source-code comments into raw JSON files for
Codo is a CoffeeScript API documentation generator, similar to YARD. Its generated documentation is focused on CoffeeScript class syntax for classical inheritance.
Angular expressions support for easy-template-x