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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?

Easy to create multiple, navigatable documenation pages - one page for API reference and another for Overiew articles and another for whatever

The Reference UI has a space for overall explanation, expl. of each parameter and editable code samples

The Reference is maintained as an Open API document Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

The text formatting is limited to markdown plus a bit more

Cannot resize images, you have to insert them at the final size

Have to go to high-level subscription for collapsable titles in the navigation for articles ( the reference has collapsible titles) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Providind clear documentation for our users

Maintaining an Open API doc so that I can document updates in the API and be in sync with the development team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Create API Docs via GUI without thinking about write yaml file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

I don't understand about models, etc. I need training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Create API docs via GUI without writing any yaml file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Simple UI and easily configurable items helps in API design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It should be a more interactive tool and give pre defined options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API documentation which really helps API users to understand API functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The best thing about StopLight is that it supports OpenAPI. It also allows us to integrate Git with our APIs. It also supports Markdown. It also let's us share our APIs with our teammates conveniently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

It is a bit harder to set up as compared to other competitors in the market. Also, Its UI could have been a bit more user-friendly. Also, the support for multiple environments could have been made a bit easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use StopLight for public and private documentation for our SaaS APIs. All APIs are described in OpenAPI YAML format by the developers themselves and deployed to a gateway after being edited and published from Stoplight and validated by CI jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

* Interoperability with other REST API development environments and tools

* Graphical form editing of OAS files

* OS-independent Stoplight Client software

* Options to work online or offline (in a Stoplight OS-specific client)

* Beautiful, clean OAS documentation rendering in a tree view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Rare OAS documentation form display bug (only encountered in an online version), preventing array data types from rendering correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Complexities of API design and documentation, especially the required knowledge of OAS YAML or JSON specifications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

The ability to test the APIs online for both Testing and Production environment without actually downloading any other tool like Postman for example Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Ability to generate a PDF document for anyone to refer offline about the APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are a payment service provider and our clients use this platform to test the APIs even before coding and we can demonstrate the APIs where the environment is always ready. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight is quite easy to use and even non-technical users can get started quickly. It serves multiple use cases like API design, API development, API mocking, API documentation, and even general documentation & guides. It also helps you set up software and API quality processes and checks via linting. It is a good competitor to Postman, which is also trying to go for the market of complete API stack - development, documentation and distribution stack. The way the team is working on and thinking of new features is commendable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Support could be better. There are a lot of feedback items on their public roadmap that they should absolutely get to working on and have more technical people on the support side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am using Stoplight for API design, collaborative API development, and public documentation+API runner. This has helped me become more productive and also learn new stuff. This has also enabled the organization (which is an early-stage startup) to build our core API product without the need to worry about decent documentation. I've also consulted with a few organizations and developers on how they could take their Stoplight setup to the next level and learnt something new about the platform everytime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

- It's straightforward to use.

- One of the best tools in the market.

- The team is very supportive and quickly responds to queries.

- Git integration is the best feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Don't really dislike anything, but as a feature request, it would be good to have the ability to also host GraphQL API documentation via Stoplight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Client-facing documentation

Clean UX design

Ability to design APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Stoplight automatically and effortlessly maps an API and then presents services and tooling to decrease development time and boost accessibility and reliability. Makes API users more productive.

I like how he OpenAPI specification toolkit that allows us to produce OpenAPI specification without the need of technical knowledge background.

I like how easy to merge OpenAPI files with Markdown to produce attractive documentation for external and internal stakeholders.

I have been able to utilize the OpenAPI specification with the softwares visual editor which helps me to create standardized and consistent REST APIs for my organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Without coding I am able to design complex APIs rapidly. I appreciate the good work done by the support team which is dedicated and proactive 24/7. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to merge OpenAPI specification with Markdown to produce searchable and robust external and internal API documentation for my enterprise.

It also improves our web APIs test coverage so that it can perform more better for our online consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stoplight?

Mocking servers are very convenient. Here, frontend and backend teams can work in parallel and get a glimpse of what the application to be developed will look like.

Parallel development is another strength of this platform. The tools for creating documentation for the programs we develop are perfect. Model referencing is one of the best features for collaboration. In general, the software has a user interface that facilitates everything related to application development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stoplight?

Despite all the facilities that Stoplight gives, the price is high. Even users without editing permissions have to pay to view the development.

I would change this for a cheaper license for guest users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Stoplight to create the interface design of our applications. First, the frontend team makes a proposal, which the backend team reviews. Then, they both collaborate to define the final details of the initial design.

Changes during development are communicated in rea-time among all participants in the group. Thus, communication is generated more accurately.

Thanks to all this, the workflow has been more straightforward, with projects better achieved and valued. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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