Announcing Exciting New Features: Style Guides, API Sharing, and More

Nithmi Onara

We are happy to announce the latest updates to Xapi, packed with powerful new design guideline features and enhancements implemented to improve your API design and development process, and project management efficiency. Here's a closer look at the new features.

Major Features

1. API Style Guide
   

   For API developers trying to maintain consistency and quality across their API designs, Xapi now offers [API Style Guides]. Xapi users may either enable public style guides or create custom style guides to validate their API specifications in both JSON and YAML formats. When a rule within a style guide is violated, clear error or warning diagnostics will highlight these issues, so that the developers can address them and uphold best practices across their API design life cycle.

   Key Benefits:
   • Enforces uniform coding standards across all API projects.
   • Simplified the review process with automated validation and diagnostics.
   • Support for both JSON and YAML API specifications.
   
2. Share API
   

   Collaboration just got easier with Xapi’s new Share API. Users can now easily share APIs with project collaborators. Whether you want to share an API via a notification or share an API link directly, Xapi provides flexible options to make teamwork more efficient and straightforward.

   Key Benefits:
   • Swiftly share APIs within your team or with stakeholders.
   • Collaborators can be notified directly within the platform.
   • Simplifies cross-team communication and review processes.
   

Minor Features

1. Clickable Notifications
   

   Navigating through project activities has never been easier! Clickable notifications now redirect users to relevant activities or sections within the platform with a single click. This reduces the time spent searching for updates and boosts productivity by keeping your workflow seamless and uninterrupted.

   Key Benefits:
   • Direct access to latest activities through clickable alerts.
   • Enhanced user experience by minimizing navigation efforts.
2. Design Guideline Attachment
   

   Keeping everyone in the team aligned with design standards is crucial for maintaining consistent API designs. Xapi’s latest project dashboard widget, allows users to upload and attach documents detailing their organization's API design guidelines. This ensures that everyone working on a project has easy access to their organization's preferred practices and methodologies.

   Key Benefits:
   • Maintaining consistency by attaching custom design guidelines.
   • Promotes team adherence to established design protocols.
   • Fosters better understanding and compliance with organizational standards.
   

With these new features and improvements, Xapi continues to enhance its toolkit, empowering API developers to collaborate more efficiently and maintain higher standards across their projects.

Stay tuned for more enhancements as we continue to evolve Xapi based on your valuable feedback!

Try these new features and share your experience with us. Happy coding!

Nithmi Onara

Business Analyst at X-venture