Swagger UI and ReDoc are both tools for generating documentation for your APIs, but they have slightly different features and presentation styles.
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Swagger UI:
- Swagger UI is an interactive exploration tool, meaning users can make requests to the API endpoints directly from the documentation.
- It provides a more functional and interactive user interface where parameters can be filled in and endpoint methods can be tested.
- The design is relatively simple and straightforward, but not as modern as ReDoc.
- It is part of the Swagger toolset which includes tools for designing, building, and documenting APIs.
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ReDoc:
- ReDoc is a more static tool, focused on presenting your API in a readable, navigational, and clean layout.
- It organizes endpoints by tags, making complex API documentation more understandable.
- ReDoc has a more modern design compared to Swagger UI, and it can handle large APIs with many endpoints and complex structures better.
- However, it does not provide built-in interactive testing of endpoints.
So, the major difference is that Swagger UI is interactive and allows for testing of the API directly from the documentation, whereas ReDoc provides a more modern, clean, and easily navigational documentation, but without interactive capabilities. Depending on your requirements, you might prefer one over the other or even choose to use both. With FastAPI, both are generated automatically and made available.