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- Status: accepted
- Deciders: frontend chapter and tech leaders of Tapsell and Metrix

## Context and Problem Statement

We need a tool to design and document APIs and automate API development.

## Considered Options

- Swagger (OpenAPI 3)
- Postman

## Decision Outcome

Chosen option: Swagger. Because:

- Open source
- Code generator tools (CLIs) based on a JSON/YAML file (used in frontend projects to generate code based on the API)
- JSON/YAML generator tools based on codes (used in backend projects to generate YAML files from the code)
