Getting started with Design Center

Design Center is a tool that is used to design and build APIs in Anypoint Platform. Here, we design and test the API specification first, before the actual development. This is called the API design-first approach. We can share the API specification with other developers to consume the API even before we start the development. The two main components of Design Center are API Designer and Flow Designer.

API Designer

API Designer is a platform for designing, documenting, and testing APIs in RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) or OpenAPI Specification (OAS) with code-based or visually guided experience. It also generates interactive API documentation in the API console, which provides information on APIs and their methods. Before the actual implementation, an API developer can also test their APIs in the API console itself.

Note

RAML is a YAML-based language for describing RESTful APIs. OAS, an open API specification formerly known as Swagger...