Docusaurus OpenAPI Doc Generator
OpenAPI plugin for generating API reference docs in Docusaurus v2.
Overview
The docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs
package extends the Docusaurus CLI with commands for generating MDX using the OpenAPI specification as the source. The resulting MDX is fully compatible with plugin-content-docs and can be used to render beautiful reference API docs by setting docItemComponent
to @theme/ApiItem
, a custom component included in the docusaurus-theme-openapi-docs
theme.
Key Features:
- Compatible: Works with Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.x.
- Fast: Convert large OpenAPI specs into MDX docs in seconds. 🔥
- Stylish: Based on the same Infima styling framework that powers the Docusaurus UI.
- Capable: Supports single, multi and even micro OpenAPI specs.
Installation
Plugin:
yarn add docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs
Theme:
yarn add docusaurus-theme-openapi-docs
Configuring docusaurus.config.js
(Plugin and theme usage)
Here is an example of properly configuring your docusaurus.config.js
file for docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs
and docusaurus-theme-openapi-docs
usage.
{
presets: [
[
"classic",
({
docs: {
sidebarPath: require.resolve("./sidebars.js"),
editUrl:
"https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/tree/main/packages/create-docusaurus/templates/shared/",
docLayoutComponent: "@theme/DocPage",
docItemComponent: "@theme/ApiItem"
},
blog: {
showReadingTime: true,
editUrl:
"https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/tree/main/packages/create-docusaurus/templates/shared/"
},
theme: {
customCss: require.resolve("./src/css/custom.css")
}
})
]
],
plugins: [
'docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs',
{
id: "apiDocs",
docsPluginId: "classic",
config: {
petstore: {
specPath: "examples/petstore.yaml",
outputDir: "api/petstore",
sidebarOptions: {
groupPathsBy: "tag",
},
},
burgers: {
specPath: "examples/food/burgers/openapi.yaml",
outputDir: "api/food/burgers",
}
}
},
]
],
themes: ["docusaurus-theme-openapi-docs"]
}
Note: You may optionally configure a dedicated @docusaurus/plugin-content-docs
instance for use with docusaurus-theme-openapi-docs
by setting docItemComponent
to @theme/ApiItem
.
Plugin Configuration Options
The docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs
plugin can be configured with the following options:
Name | Type | Default | Description |
---|
id | string | null | A unique document id. |
docsPluginId | string | null | The ID associated with the plugin-content-docs or preset instance used to render the OpenAPI docs (e.g. "your-plugin-id", "classic", "default"). |
config
config
can be configured with the following options:
Name | Type | Default | Description |
---|
specPath | string | null | Designated URL or path to the source of an OpenAPI specification file or directory of multiple OpenAPI specification files. |
ouputDir | string | null | Desired output path for generated MDX files. |
proxy | string | null | Optional: Proxy URL to prepend to base URL when performing API requests from browser. |
template | string | null | Optional: Customize MDX content with a desired template. |
downloadUrl | string | null | Optional: Designated URL for downloading OpenAPI specification. (requires info section/doc) |
hideSendButton | boolean | null | Optional: If set to true , hides the "Send API Request" button in API demo panel |
showExtensions | boolean | null | Optional: If set to true , renders operation-level vendor-extensions in description. |
sidebarOptions | object | null | Optional: Set of options for sidebar configuration. See below for a list of supported options. |
version | string | null | Optional: Version assigned to single or micro-spec API specified in specPath . |
label | string | null | Optional: Version label used when generating version selector dropdown menu. |
baseUrl | string | null | Optional: Version base URL used when generating version selector dropdown menu. |
versions | object | null | Optional: Set of options for versioning configuration. See below for a list of supported options. |
sidebarOptions
can be configured with the following options:
Name | Type | Default | Description |
---|
groupPathsBy | string | null | Organize and group sidebar slice by specified option. Note: Currently, groupPathsBy only contains support for grouping by tag . |
categoryLinkSource | string | null | Defines what source to use for rendering category pages when grouping paths by tag. By default, pages are not created for categories, only groups that can be expanded/collapsed.
The supported options are as follows:
auto : Sets the category link config type to generated-index , building an index page with links to each page in the group.
tag : Sets the category link config type to generated-index and uses the tag description at the top of the page.
info : Sets the category link config type to doc and renders the info section as the category link (recommended only for multi/micro-spec scenarios). |
sidebarCollapsible | boolean | true | Whether sidebar categories are collapsible by default. |
sidebarCollapsed | boolean | true | Whether sidebar categories are collapsed by default. |
customProps | object | null | Additional props for customizing a sidebar item. |
You may optionally configure a sidebarOptions
. In doing so, an individual sidebar.js
slice with the configured options will be generated within the respective outputDir
.
versions
can be configured with the following options:
Name | Type | Default | Description |
---|
specPath | string | null | Designated URL or path to the source of an OpenAPI specification file or directory of micro OpenAPI specification files. |
ouputDir | string | null | Desired output path for versioned, generated MDX files. |
label | string | null | Optional: Version label used when generating version selector dropdown menu. |
baseUrl | string | null | Optional: Version base URL used when generating version selector dropdown menu. |
All versions will automatically inherit sidebarOptions
from the parent/base config.
CLI Usage
Usage: docusaurus <command> [options]
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
build [options] [siteDir] Build website.
swizzle [options] [themeName] [componentName] [siteDir] Wraps or ejects the original theme files into website folder for customization.
deploy [options] [siteDir] Deploy website to GitHub pages.
start [options] [siteDir] Start the development server.
serve [options] [siteDir] Serve website locally.
clear [siteDir] Remove build artifacts.
write-translations [options] [siteDir] Extract required translations of your site.
write-heading-ids [options] [siteDir] [files...] Generate heading ids in Markdown content.
docs:version <version> Tag a new docs version
gen-api-docs <id> Generates OpenAPI docs in MDX file format and sidebar.js (if enabled).
gen-api-docs:version <id:version> Generates versioned OpenAPI docs in MDX file format, versions.js and sidebar.js (if enabled).
clean-api-docs <id> Clears the generated OpenAPI docs MDX files and sidebar.js (if enabled).
clean-api-docs:version <id:version> Clears the versioned, generated OpenAPI docs MDX files, versions.json and sidebar.js (if
enabled).
Generating OpenAPI Docs
To generate all OpenAPI docs, run the following command from the root directory of your project:
yarn docusaurus gen-api-docs all
This will generate API docs for all of the OpenAPI specification (OAS) files referenced in your docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs
config.
You may also generate OpenAPI docs for a single path or OAS by specifying the unique id
:
yarn docusaurus gen-api-docs <id>
Example:
yarn docusaurus gen-api-docs burgers
The example above will only generate API docs relative to burgers
.
Cleaning API Docs
To clean/remove all API Docs, run the following command from the root directory of your project:
yarn docusaurus clean-api-docs all
You may also remove a particular set of API docs by specifying the unique id
of your desired spec instance.
yarn docusaurus clean-api-docs <id>
Example:
yarn docusaurus clean-api-docs burgers
The example above will remove all API docs relative to burgers
.
Versioning OpenAPI docs
To generate all versioned OpenAPI docs, run the following command from the root directory of your project:
yarn docusaurus gen-api-docs:version <id>:all
Example:
yarn docusaurus gen-api-docs:version petstore:all
This will generate API docs for all of the OpenAPI specification (OAS) files referenced in your versions
config and will also generate a versions.json
file.
Substitue all
with a specific version ID to generate/clean a specific version. Generating for all
or a specific version ID will automatically update the versions.json
file.
Installing from Template
Run the following to bootstrap a Docsaurus v2 site (classic theme) with docusaurus-openapi-docs
:
npx create-docusaurus@2.0.1 my-website --package-manager yarn
When prompted to select a template choose Git repository
.
Template Repository URL:
https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/docusaurus-template-openapi-docs.git
When asked how the template repo should be cloned choose "copy" (unless you know better).
cd my-website
yarn
Developer Quick Start
Looking to make a contribution? Make sure to checkout out our contributing guide.
After forking the main repository, run the following:
git clone https://github.com/<your account>/docusaurus-openapi-docs.git
cd docusaurus-openapi-docs
yarn
yarn build-packages
yarn watch:demo
Support
Please read SUPPORT.md for details on how to get support for this project.