Use Cases: How to Make ReadMe Work for You APIs come in all shapes and sizes and while ReadMe is a great documentation solution for whatever kind of API you have, we’ve created this page to help you get the most out of the…
Best Practices: How to Get the Most From ReadMe To help you jumpstart your ReadMe project, we’ve put together some best practices for building and maintaining a top-notch developer hub. While these are suggestions based on our team’s experience building and using ReadMe, your…
Using My Developers to Understand API Usage and Debug Issues After setting up Developer Dashboard, you'll notice that there's a new My Developers page in your dashboard. This area gives your team in-depth developer profiles and API usage analytics. Here, your team can dig into…
The Rise of API-First Companies If you told developers back in 2005 that they could make money off of an API, they'd laugh at you. The notion that you can build just a layer of software — just one functionality…
7 Crucial Design Elements for Your API Documentation User interface and experience (UI/UX) are a crucial part of professional, in-depth API documentation. Think of your documentation as the UI/UX of your API — badly-designed or difficult to use documentation can do a lot…
What is Swagger and Why Does it Matter? In the early 1800s, the American railroad was a free-for-all. Every city had its own time calculation, which meant that there were over 300 different time zones across the country. This made train schedules incredibly…
Customize Your DX With Developer Dashboard When considering what makes a great developer experience, we usually break it down into the three stages of your developer lifecycle: Evaluation & onboarding 🤔 Educating users about what’s possible and helping them make their…