DPdphuang2·Apr 3, 2024Submission
Show HN: Konfig – SDKs for APIs to write and maintain less API integration
Hi HN,
We are excited to share Konfig SDKs, a collection of SDKs for public APIs that help you write and maintain less API integration code. These SDKs provide convenient types and interfaces for making API calls so you never have to read the details of how to construct your HTTP requests or what data types to pass.
With SDKs you can:
- reduce lines of API integration code by ~25%
- instantiate ~30% less variables
- develop API integrations 2x faster
Here are some links to explore:
- A blog post explaining the details of why we and how we built it: https://konfigthis.com/blog/introducing-konfig-sdks/
- Directory of SDKs: https://konfigthis.com/sdk/category/all/
For context, we are developer experience enthusiasts and know the pain of searching for an up-to-date SDK for an API, only to find abandoned projects or poorly documented libraries
Read the rest
. If you are lucky, some hero developer has published a high-quality SDK, only to eventually fall out-of-date over time, as unpaid work can only last so long.
To generate all the SDKs, we created the highest-quality collection of OpenAPI specifications (https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html) on the internet: https://github.com/konfig-sdks/openapi-examples (it's open and MIT licensed). It contains metadata about the API provider, media assets, response time logs, and the specification itself.
Every specification is modified to ensure that we can create high-quality SDKs. For example, we use LLMs to generate method names for every operation so that the generated SDKs feel natural to use. We then continuously use this dataset to generate SDKs using a generator we have developed over the past 16 months.
I’m excited to know if you have any thoughts or feedback! We also created a Discord server you can join here: https://discord.gg/BAUS4Xtb.