scribe/docs/index.md

Overview

Generate API documentation for humans from your Laravel/Lumen/Dingo codebase. Here's what the output looks like. There's a Node.js version, too!

.. admonition:: Wondering where to start? Try one of these links:
   
   - `What's new in v2 <migrating-v2.html>`_
   - `Migrating from mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator <migrating.html>`_, or
   - the `getting started guide <guide-getting-started.html>`_.

.. Tip:: Scribe helps you generate docs automatically, but if you really want to make friendly, maintainable and testable API docs, there's some more stuff you need to know. So I made `a course <https://apidocsfordevs.com?utm_source=scribe-laravel-docs&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=none>`_ for you.🤗

Features

• Pretty HTML documentation page, with included code samples and friendly text
• Included "Try It Out" button so users can test endpoints right from their browser
• Markdown source files that can be edited to modify docs
• Extracts body parameters information from FormRequests
• Safely calls API endpoints to generate sample responses, with authentication and other custom configuration supported
• Supports generating responses from Transformers or Eloquent API Resources
• Supports Postman collection and OpenAPI (Swagger) spec generation
• Included UI components for additional styling
• Easily customisable with custom views
• Easily extensible with custom strategies

Contents

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   guide-getting-started
   migrating-v2
   migrating
   documenting/index
   generating-documentation
   config
   troubleshooting
   customization
   architecture
   plugins
   contributing

Installation

PHP 7.4 and Laravel/Lumen 6 or higher are required.

composer require --dev knuckleswtf/scribe

Laravel

Publish the config file by running:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Knuckles\Scribe\ScribeServiceProvider" --tag=scribe-config

This will create a scribe.php file in your config folder.

Lumen

• Register the service provider in your bootstrap/app.php:

$app->register(\Knuckles\Scribe\ScribeServiceProvider::class);

• Copy the config file from vendor/knuckleswtf/scribe/config/scribe.php to your project as config/scribe.php. Then add to your bootstrap/app.php:

$app->configure('scribe');

Next up: follow the Getting Started guide to see what you can do with Scribe.