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Generating OpenAPI API clients for Angular
- The OpenAPI specification simplifies the RESTful API development process by offering a standard document that developers can use to auto-generate API documentation, validators, and client SDKs.
- Using auto-generated API clients brings the following benefits to your Angular projects.
- OpenAPI code generation tools let developers build RESTful API clients by importing the YAML/JSON OpenAPI specification file without writing any HTTP client implementation sources.
- Automated code generation eliminates common developer errors, such as method naming issues, missing fields in responses, and HTTP client implementation issues in manually written API clients.
- OpenAPI client generators rely on API specification files and basic code generation options (e.g., letter case styles), so they will always generate consistent method implementations that app developers can use without confusion.
- Let’s learn how to generate OpenAPI API clients for Angular web projects.
- In this tutorial, we’ll generate an API client for a sample Angular project and use it to connect with a simple backend RESTful server through the Angular app interface.
- Using this approach, you can use any auto-generated client service in any Angular component.
- The OpenAPI Generator project offers a CLI for generating API client modules for multiple language targets by importing a YAML/JSON API specification file.
- Auto-generated code should be kept away from the Angular app codebase you’ve written manually.
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