Good News! You No Longer Need to Generate Documentation Manually

No one likes to manually produce documentation. It takes too much time. It’s hard to use the right forms. And it’s just plain boring.And yet, it’s critically important to produce up-to-date documentation. Most front-end developers don’t understand back-end development, and your API documentation gives them—and anyone else who plans to use your application—a critical source of information about how the back-end works.But even though we all know this, most back-end developers fail to reliably produce documentation… and our own developers were no exception.In this article, we’ll walk you through our own struggle to reliably produce API documentation, and how we developed a simple, step-by-step process that automatically generates our documentation—a process which you can deploy today.