Super beginner question :)
Dear friends,
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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 OpenAPI a little and find the whole concept of "API first" programming really attractive.
I my probably limited understanding if I take some time to define the APIs and the related data model I can then ensure that BOTH the backend and front-end developers rely on that to develop their stuff right?
For the backend I've been generating flask-servers and using an Atlas MongoDB and all is cute and fine.
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What I'm trying to understand is if there's a toolchain to speed up a front-end development coherent with the API and its data model.
Currently I'm just using the datamodel to build forms and stuff like that but if I did change something in the API or datamodel I currently have to manually review the forms to be sure they reflect the new data.
Is it possible if not automating at least to help in this fronted to API/model consistency?
Hope this is not too dumb a question. Thanks in advance.
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.
