Markdown support
Use of markdown helps create comprehensive and structured API documentation.
Bump supports common Markdown syntax, language color syntax highlighting, and information call-outs. Markdown can be included inside your contract file or as an external reference using dedicated Markdown files. Here's several options that may help.
Formatting | Markdown syntax | Rendering |
bold | **bold** | bold |
italic | _italic_ | italic |
link | [links](https://bump.sh) | |
inline code | ̀ inline code ̀ | inline code |
highlight | ==highlight== | |
strike-through | ~~strikethrough~~ | strikethrough |
footnote | Footnote[^1] | Footnote¹
¹: Content of the first footnote |
quotes | > quotes |
|
- Heading 1:
# A first-level title - Heading 2:
## A second-level title - Heading 3:
### A third-level title
E.g.
```json
{
"hello": "world",
"number": 1,
"boolean": true
}
```
will render:
{
"hello": "world",
"number": 1,
"boolean": true
}
Bump support information call-outs (of type
info, warn, success or error) with the quote markdown syntax (lines starting with > ) if the first line contains one of the call-out types.E.g.
> info
> this is an important information to **standout**
will render:
this is an important information to standout
Markdown files can be included as an external reference within your contract document with the $ref syntax
$ref: "./path/to/local-markdown.md". In the same way you can extract part of your contract (usually JSON schema of your models into dedicated *.yaml or *.json files), you can extract your markdown content into dedicated files too.E.g. Your OpenAPI contract
api-contract.yml can thus looks like:openapi: 3.1.0
info:
title: Bump API documentation
version: 1.0.0
description:
$ref: "./docs/introduction.md"
x-topics:
- title: Getting started
content:
$ref: "./docs/getting-started.md"
- title: Use cases
content:
$ref: "./docs/use-cases.md"
example:
$ref: "./docs/use-cases-examples.md"
servers:
...
paths:
...
With files
docs/introduction.md, docs/getting-started.md, docs/use-cases.md and docs/use-cases-examples.md right next to your contract document, you will be able to generate a comprehensive API documentation with nicely formatted content for your users.It's a great way to include “Topic” sections with handwritten content before the documentation of endpoints/webhooks (or channels in case of an AsyncAPI contract) in dedicated Markdown files. Thanks to the
x-topics top-level property in your contract as explained in the dedicated help page.Creating good API documentation requires giving users context and guides. As most of the specifications don't permit to add generic content, we have created a custom property. Setting the
x-topics property at the root of your documentation specification will let you add some content sections at the beginning of your documentation.Each topic can have the following properties:
Property | Description |
title | Topic title as it will appear in the navigation bar and in the content section. |
content | The topic content. Markdown is fully supported here. |
example | Will appear in the examples section, if activated. Markdown is fully supported here. |
Example:
x-topics:
- title: Getting started
content: Before using the API you need to get an API key by sending us an email.
- title: Authentication
content: Send the `X-API-KEY` header with all your requests.
example: |
```
$ curl \
-X POST https://api.example.com/endpoint/ \
-H "X-API-KEY: XXXXXX" \
```
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