Swagger UI Express

Adds middleware to your express app to serve the Swagger UI bound to your Swagger document. This acts as living documentation for your API hosted from within your app.

Usage

In app's package.json

"swagger-ui-express": "latest" // or desired version

Express setup app.js

1const express = require('express');
2const app = express();
3const swaggerUi = require('swagger-ui-express');
4const swaggerDocument = require('./swagger.json');
5
6app.use('/api-docs', swaggerUi.serve, swaggerUi.setup(swaggerDocument));

Open http://<app_host>:<app_port>/api-docs in your browser to view the documentation.

If you want to set up routing based on the swagger document checkout swagger-express-router

swagger-jsdoc

If you are using swagger-jsdoc simply pass the swaggerSpec into the setup function:

1// Initialize swagger-jsdoc -> returns validated swagger spec in json format
2const swaggerSpec = swaggerJSDoc(options);
3
4app.use('/api-docs', swaggerUi.serve, swaggerUi.setup(swaggerSpec));

Swagger Explorer

By default the Swagger Explorer bar is hidden, to display it pass true as the second parameter to the setup function:

1const express = require('express');
2const app = express();
3const swaggerUi = require('swagger-ui-express');
4const swaggerDocument = require('./swagger.json');
5
6var showExplorer = true;
7
8app.use('/api-docs', swaggerUi.serve, swaggerUi.setup(swaggerDocument, showExplorer));

Custom swagger options

To pass custom options e.g. validatorUrl, to the SwaggerUi client pass an object as the third parameter:

1const express = require('express');
2const app = express();
3const swaggerUi = require('swagger-ui-express');
4const swaggerDocument = require('./swagger.json');
5
6var showExplorer = true;
7var options = {
8	validatorUrl : null
9};
10
11app.use('/api-docs', swaggerUi.serve, swaggerUi.setup(swaggerDocument, showExplorer, options));

Custom CSS styles

To customize the style of the swagger page, you can pass custom CSS as the fourth parameter.

E.g. to hide the swagger header:

1const express = require('express');
2const app = express();
3const swaggerUi = require('swagger-ui-express');
4const swaggerDocument = require('./swagger.json');
5
6var showExplorer = false;
7var options = {};
8var customCss = '#header { display: none }';
9
10app.use('/api-docs', swaggerUi.serve, swaggerUi.setup(swaggerDocument, showExplorer, options, customCss));

Requirements

• Node v0.10.32 or above
• Express 4 or above

Testing

Install phantom npm install npm test