The API Stylebook

The apistylebook.com repository contains the data and tools used to build the API Stylebook. The API Stylebook aims to help API Designers to solve API design matters and build their API design guidelines by providing quick and easy access to selected and categorized resources.
More detail about the API Stylebook.

Repository structure

• api: Static files pushed to the apistylebook-api repository on gh-pages branches along with the files generated by builder
• builder: Node module using data files to generate md files used by jenkins web site in web and the YAML and JSON files for the static API in api
• data: YAML files containing the API Stylebook data
• scripts: Scripts to build and deploy the API Stylebook website and API
• web: Jenkins website pushed to the apistylebook-web repository on gh-pages. Used the md files generated by builder

Contributing to the API Stylebook

You can contribute to the API Stylebook by sending PRs.

Add a new styleguide

To add a new styleguide, you need to create a new guideline file some-company-new-guidelines-id.yaml in data/guidelines.

id: some-company-new-guidelines-id
title: New Guidelines
type: website
url: https://developer.somecompany.com/docs/guidelines/
company: Some Company
companyLogoUrl: /media/logos/some-company.png
companyUrl: https://developer.somecompany.com/
screenshotUrl: /media/screenshots/some-company-new-guidelines-id.png
date: 2016-01-22
reviewDate: 2016-09-01

topics:
  some-topic:
    - name: Some Section Name
      url: https://developer.somecompany.com/docs/guidelines/#some-section-name
      quote: A quote to find easily the topic in the section 

Add a new topic

To add a new topic which was not already covered by an existing guideline, you need to add it to the data/design/guidelines/topics.yaml file.

some-topic:
  category: Some Category
  name: Some Topic
  description: A description of this topic

Tools used

Here's the list of tools used:

• Bootstrap to build easily a responsive website
• Bootstrap TOC for dynamic TOC sidebar
• Anchor JS to add links on H1, H2, H3 sections titles on posts
• Font Awesome for icons
• Jekyll to build the static website apistylebook.com
• Github Page to host apistylebook.com and api.apistylebook.com
• Travis CI to build and deploy apistylebook.com and api.apistylebook.com

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