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rjalex
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4 years ago
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Super beginner question :)

Dear friends, <preamble> in real life I am a medical doctor and as my dark secret I do some programming to take a break from my main job and "distract" myself from it. I have been playing with Ope...
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    RonRatovsky
    4 years ago

    It depends on the version of the codegen that you use (which depends on the version of specification you use). You can take a look at https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen#modifying-the-client-library-format and the following header to learn how to customize the codegen. There *are* html/js templates, but they may not suit your needs. However, you can take a look at them and use them as a baseline.

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rjalex
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Well thanks for letting me know I'm not totally misunderstanding 🙂

I use Codegen to generate the Flask backend but could not find/understand how to use it to also generate a "boilerplate" of an HTML/JS frontend ... is this possible? Can you suggest some  further reading/ideas?

 

Take care

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RonRatovsky
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4 years ago

It depends on the version of the codegen that you use (which depends on the version of specification you use). You can take a look at https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen#modifying-the-client-library-format and the following header to learn how to customize the codegen. There *are* html/js templates, but they may not suit your needs. However, you can take a look at them and use them as a baseline.

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    rjalex
    New Contributor
    4 years ago

    Thanks a lot! Will study 🙂

    Even in my beginner's understanding I see how Smartbear's products and architecture caters for robust API design and implementation but also feel that if I'm not also facilitating the front-end developers the idea of API First philosophy might be weakened.