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Stoplight Overview

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What is Stoplight?

Let Stoplight be your platform for building high-quality APIs for any scale - with best-in-class editing, documentation, and governance featuring built-in mocking, linting, style guides, component libraries, and more. Coding APIs before designing them wastes time and money and creates unnecessary risk. Build successful API programs at any scale that drive business outcomes with a design-first approach. Stoplight is the only design-focused API solution. With integrated documentation and governance, the Stoplight platform enables consistency, reusability, and quality for an enjoyable developer experience. The platform enables successful API programs driven by digital transformation, platform development, and API-as-a-product - for new or established teams.

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Stoplight leverages your OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications to drive the entire API development process.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Stoplight enables a strategic, proactive API development process that starts with design. With design-first, companies minimize risk and cost, speed time-to-market, and yield faster return on investment.

Stoplight has the only visual (form-based) API editing tool that makes it simple to leverage OpenAPI standards and schemas to design and document APIs. This enables Stoplight users to get their APIs in the hands of developers quickly for rapid adoption - driving business results.

- Quickly ideate API design in Stoplight Studio
- Easily share designs and collaborate with stakeholders in a Stoplight Workspace
- Design an OpenAPI spec in ~1 minute in Stoplight Studio
- Automatically generate and update top-notch Documentation
- Quickly test your API design with mock servers
- Consistently match your organization’s API rulesets with Stoplight Style Guides
- Choose a git-less or Git-integrated workflows

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There is no field or industry today that is moving as fast as technology. It’s changed how we live, work, and connect with others – it’s also changed the pressure on software teams. SmartBear provides a portfolio of trusted tools that give software development teams around the world visibility into end-to-end quality through test management and automation, API development lifecycle, and application stability, ensuring each software release is better than the last. Award-winning and industry favorite tools including SwaggerHub, TestComplete, Bugsnag, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, and Pactflow, among others. Trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 3
,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. With an active peer-to-peer community, we meet customers where they are to help make our technology-driven world a better place. SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.

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Michael L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best API design and documentation platform available"
Stoplight provides an excellent API design and documentation platform, unlike anything else available in the market. It is useful to: 1. Develope...
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Michael L.
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Michael L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"good documentation and instructions"
I was able to get Stoplight working with Studio in minutes. preview was awesome
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Tonnie K.
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Tonnie K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Incredible powerfull API design solution"
Stoplight makes API design really easy. The graphical interface is very intuitive to use. It can easily switch to the code view and back. Even it i...
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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Integration with git (gitlab in our case) is great. I can edit and open new branches directly from stoplight.

Support for .md files also allow for more complete and organized docs than using only a single openapi file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

We could not find a way to customize the openapi file using variables, to support dev and prod environments, for example. We have to use openapi v2 (because of a google cloud limitation). Maybe this would be possible for v3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Stoplight for internal API documentation. But we intend to use it for external docs also in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

1. try API online feature

2. connect with github

3. permission management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

the way to add a new endpoint is not very convinient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

share api accross the dev team and qa team

allow qa team to invoke some API for testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

It is an easy-to-use and powerful API tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I have had difficulty integrating github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

connecting git repositories and designing APIs easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Great API builder thatmakes the task of writing an API a breeze. Can build the API from scratch in matter of minutes and best of all it generates a live mockup server with a click of a button. Oh, and did I mention it's free?! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Well there isnt much not to like about stoplight, it has a very intuitive gui and it works flawlessly. My only concern is the fact that it's a saas solution and for security sake I wish there was an option to use it offline or install on a ocal server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Saved me from waiting for the complete development of the API before I can hand it to my front end developer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The ease of use and spec best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

After using it daily for almost 2 months, I have found nothing to dislike so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

API Design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Open API linter / style guides

Git integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

More flexible access permissions can be nice (public access with password etc) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

API design, consistent style guides, maintaining and collaboration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Integrated Editing of API docs; Everything is in Github; seamless transition between viewing and editing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Configuration can be confusing and error-prone. Also, I don't particularly appreciate having disparate accounts for the Stoplight site and the support site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm using Stoplight to build the API contract and documentation for a new product. It makes it easy to work with my teammates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The UI for Stoplight Studio is overall very intuitive and attractive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

While migrating from their legacy services to Studio, we've had many difficulties with their legacy applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's wonderful not to have to host our documentation. We don't have to think about the how we're going to make the documentation work - just what we want to say. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The way we can have the software documentation and API documentation in the same place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Needs more plugins like having a way to add Confluence pages inside frames. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

Go for it! Best tool on the market! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having the sofwtare documentation and API easily available for the customers. Let hem try out the APIs using mocks is a plus! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

1. Form view

2. Simplicity of making changes

3. Connectivity to GitHub

4. Ability to collaborate with other members

5. Being able to simulate requests and responses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

1. Some features available in code view is not avaible in form view

2. Lack of "undo" feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stoplight:

1. Type of team members

2. Technical depth/ability of members

3. Size of open API docs that you are creating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stoplight solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Creating open API specs

2. Easier to share and collaborate with team members compared to google docs

3. Having one centralized location (one source of truth) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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