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OpenAPI

Generating docs for OpenAPI schema

Server Component Only

It only works under RSC environments.

Manual Setup

Install the required packages.

npm i fumadocs-openapi shiki

For Bun PM

If you encountered any issues, please check #2223.

Generate Styles

Add the following line:

Tailwind CSS
@import 'tailwindcss';
@import 'fumadocs-ui/css/neutral.css';
@import 'fumadocs-ui/css/preset.css';
@import 'fumadocs-openapi/css/preset.css';

Configure Pages

Create an OpenAPI instance on the server.

import { createOpenAPI } from 'fumadocs-openapi/server';

export const openapi = createOpenAPI({
  // the OpenAPI schema, you can also give it an external URL.
  input: ['./unkey.json'],
});

Create a APIPage component:

import { openapi } from '@/lib/openapi';
import { createAPIPage } from 'fumadocs-openapi/ui';
import client from './api-page.client';

export const APIPage = createAPIPage(openapi, {
  client,
});

Add the APIPage component to your MDX Components.

mdx-components.tsx
import defaultComponents from 'fumadocs-ui/mdx';
import { APIPage } from '@/components/api-page';
import type { MDXComponents } from 'mdx/types';

// make sure you can use it in MDX files
export function getMDXComponents(components?: MDXComponents): MDXComponents {
  return {
    ...defaultComponents,
    APIPage,
    ...components,
  };
}

Generate Files

You can generate MDX files directly from your OpenAPI schema.

Create a script:

scripts/generate-docs.ts
import { generateFiles } from 'fumadocs-openapi';
import { openapi } from '@/lib/openapi';

void generateFiles({
  input: openapi,
  output: './content/docs',
  // we recommend to enable it
  // make sure your endpoint description doesn't break MDX syntax.
  includeDescription: true,
});

Only OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 are supported.

Generate docs with the script:

bun ./scripts/generate-docs.ts

Features

The official OpenAPI integration supports:

  • Basic API endpoint information
  • Interactive API playground
  • Example code to send request (in different programming languages)
  • Response samples and TypeScript definitions
  • Request parameters and body generated from schemas

Demo

View demo.

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