Generate InfluxDB API docs

InfluxDB uses Redoc and redoc-cli to generate API documentation from the InfluxDB swagger.yml.

To minimize repo size, the generated API documentation HTML is gitignored, therefore not committed directly to the docs repo. The InfluxDB docs deployment process uses swagger files in the api-docs directory to generate version-specific API documentation.

Versioned swagger files

Structure versions swagger files using the following pattern:

api-docs/
  ├── v2.0/
  │     └── swagger.yml
  ├── v2.1/
  │     └── swagger.yml
  ├── v2.2/
  │     └── swagger.yml
  └── etc...

Generate API docs locally

Because the API documentation HTML is gitignored, you must manually generate it to view the API docs locally.

From the root of the docs repo, run:

# Install redoc-cli
npm install -g redoc-cli

# Generate the API docs
cd api-docs && generate-api-docs.sh