Alchemy Docs

Hey there - thanks for checking our API docs! 👋

This repo holds the OpenAPI specs that power our API Playgrounds at docs.alchemy.com/reference ("Try it" sections on the right).

Getting started

1. Clone the repo.

git clone https://github.com/alchemyplatform/docs-openapi-specs

2. Install dev dependencies.

npm i

Frens

Feedback? Issues? Typos?

We are continuously trying to improve our docs - any help is very welcomed! 😀

You can:

• suggest edits (top right of Tutorials pages)
• share feedback using 'Did this page help you? sections (bottom of Tutorials / API Reference pages)
• open issues here

If you're feeling adventurous, feel free to open a pull request here.

You currently can only modify API playgrounds. For pages or markdown edits in API Reference, please use one of the above options.

WIP 👷‍♀️

Below section is WIP. Until we add ids to every spec, deploy specs as you normally would.

Alchemists 👩‍🔬

To speed up your development, 2 commands are now available.

• npm run create spec.yaml
• npm run update spec.yaml

You no longer need to run the rdme command line directly to push to staging. You also no longer need to pass an API key and readme id! 🎉

First time?

Make sure you first ran through the steps above.

1. Clone .env.template into .env.

cp .env.template .env

2. Grab Readme API key.

3. Update RDME_API_KEY in .env.

Creating new spec

Known issue: will remove comments and format spec when run.

1. Write your spec (e.g. newspec.yaml).

2. Run create script passing the path to your spec.

  npm run create transact/newspec.yaml

This will:

• deploy your spec to readme
• create a page and id
• associate page id with your spec

3. Your spec will be updated with a x-readme.id field. This is super important to ensure updates work smoothly in the future!

Updating spec

Run update script. Ensure x-readme.id is set.

npm run update spec.yml

Troubleshooting

1. Check RDME_API_KEY is set in .env.
2. Check you provided a valid path to a .yaml file when running the scripts.

npm run create spec.yaml
npm run update spec.yaml

3. Check the spec has a x-readme.id property. This id is used to match the spec on Readme's side.
4. Reach out to Bastien if you have any issues running the scripts.

Linting

Linting is ran automatically when using npm run create and npm run update (powered by Spectral).

You can run it manually using

npx spectral lint spec.yaml

Rules we currently adhere - here.

You should also install the extension for your editor.

• JetBrains Plugin
• VS Code Spectral Extension

Quirks

We currently cannot use oas-normalize to resolve $refs in specs.

It relies on @readme/openapi-parser which relies on @readme/json-schema-ref-parser.

@readme/json-schema-ref-parser is a fork of @apidevtools/json-schema-ref-parser.

This is a known issue of json-schema-ref-parser - see here.

Until the issue gets resolved and changes get merged upstream, solution is to dereference the spec using @openapi-generator-plus/json-schema-ref-parser(https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openapi-generator-plus/json-schema-ref-parser).

This also means validation is done prior to running scripts via Spectral rather than with oas-normalize.

Future improvements

• Refactoring (OAS Components / Schemas, break up nfts.yaml, sdk.yaml).
• More linting rules
• update multiple specs at once
• create and update scripts share a lot of code (can be simplified)
• create script remove comments

Resources

• OpenAPI Specification v3.1.0

• Readme - OpenAPI Compatibility Chart

• Readme - OpenAPI Extensions

• Swagger.io - OpenAPI Guide

• Documenting APIs - OpenAPI tutorial

• Stoplight.io - Spectral

• JSONPath