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title: "API design & clients"
description: "Describe API contracts, inspect requests, generate clients, and publish references."
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<PurposeNote title="Choose by the job you need to do.">Keep the API contract and generated artifacts aligned with the server behavior they describe.</PurposeNote>

## Choose a library or tool

10 options in this category.

<LibraryIndex category="api-tools" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="apicurio" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="apidog" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="asyncapi" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="insomnia" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="orval" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="postman" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="redocly" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="stoplight" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="swagger" />

<LibraryCard libraryId="typespec" />

## Keep exploring

<CategoryGrid exclude="api-tools" group="Build and ship" limit={4} />

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