In a landmark stride to bridge the gap between API providers and consumers, SmartBear has unleashed its latest offering - the SwaggerHub Portal. This latest advancement is designed to fuel API adoption by enabling providers to fashion personalized informational pages to guide consumers through seamless API integration.
The central premise of the SwaggerHub Portal rests on providing a platform not just to design and document APIs, but to also test and experiment with it, consolidating all these processes into a single, streamlined infrastructure. The SwaggerHub ecosystem enhances collaboration among teams of all scales and complexities, fostering a smoother developer experience.
The SwaggerHub Portal meshes flawlessly with SwaggerHub, a leading API design and documentation tool. It also perfectly synchronizes with Explore, another SmartBear brainchild that supports REST and event-driven specifications as an API client.
Outlining the new launch, Sean Butler, VP of Product Management at SmartBear, expressed his enthusiasm, As we strive towards creating an API-centered development environment, we continue to help developers overcome the barriers in API design, documentation, testing, and adoption. The proliferation of APIs calls for better discoverability and onboarding of providers. To answer this call, we are thrilled to present two pioneer milestones – the SwaggerHub Portal and its close-knit integration with SwaggerHub Explore. Both serve as stepping stones in our journey to ascertain the premier developer experiences via the SmartBear API Developer Lifecycle platform.
With SlashData's revelation that over 90% of developers regularly use APIs, with 69% leaning on third-party APIs, it has become imperative for APIs to be easily discoverable for successful implementation. With its focus on increasing visibility and fostering adoption, the SwaggerHub Portal allows providers to simplify customer onboarding and enhance customer experience.
Brought together with the Portal, developers can now produce documentation from their API designs with no need for context switching, thus reducing time to market and increasing API discoverability and adoption. Whether being code-first, design-first, or hybrid, development teams have an easy means to produce documentation via Explore, negating the need to initiate documentation from zero, as explained by SmartBear.
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