Building, hosting, and consuming your first API App
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What is Swagger?
Swagger is open source software that provides powerful metadata representation of your RESTful API. It is a specification for documenting RESTful APIs. It is machine-readable and language agnostic, so there are different implementations for different platforms.
In Azure API Apps, Microsoft adapts Swashbuckle to implement Swagger 2.0. So, the API you create can be easily discoverable using metadata in Swagger 2.0 format, which is widely accepted and supported.
Support for Swagger 2.0 (Refer: http://swagger.io/) API metadata is built into Azure App Service. Each API App can specify a URL endpoint that returns metadata for the API in Swagger JSON format. The JSON metadata returned from that endpoint can be used to generate client code.
If you have a Web API project, then to add Swagger to the project you need to install Swashbuckle via NuGet. Swashbuckle enables the way Swagger metadata is generated for...