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2 posts tagged OpenAPI — buyer's guides, comparisons, and how-tos for developers.

29 October 2026·11 min read

Scalar vs Swagger UI vs Redoc 2026: The Best API Documentation Tool Compared

A practical 2026 comparison of the three API documentation renderers every backend developer ends up choosing between — Swagger UI (the ubiquitous incumbent with Try it out testing), Redoc (the clean, read-only three-panel reference renderer), and Scalar (the modern open-source UI with a built-in API client that Microsoft made the ASP.NET Core default). All three read the same OpenAPI document, so we cover what actually differs: interactive testing, OpenAPI 3.1 support, theming, bundle size, hosting, and which one to ship inside the API templates and SaaS starters you build and sell.

10 October 2026·12 min read

tRPC vs oRPC vs ts-rest 2026: Choosing an End-to-End Type-Safe API Layer

A practical 2026 comparison of the three leading end-to-end type-safe API libraries for TypeScript — tRPC (the incumbent with the deepest TanStack Query integration and the largest ecosystem), oRPC (the newer, OpenAPI-first contender with Standard Schema support, file and streaming handling, and framework-agnostic server actions), and ts-rest (the contract-first option that keeps plain REST semantics for non-TypeScript consumers). Developer experience, OpenAPI story, schema-library support, ecosystem size, and which to pick for an internal monorepo, a public API, or a REST-shaped backend.