AWS Serverless Swagger UI

This module allows you to serve auto-generated swagger-ui API docs from the AWS API Gateway. It uses Lambda functions to generate the API docs based on a swagger/open-api yaml file. The result is living documentation for your API hosted on your AWS API Gateway.

Initially based upon swagger-ui-aws-apigateway, this version focus on :

• simplify the code base.
• speed up rendering
• update code with ES6 syntax including async handler.
• reduce the number of HTTP requests.
• accept any filename in .yaml for the definition, not only interface.yaml.
• allow the path to be whatever you want, not limited to /api-docs (see Restrictions).
• fix media files rendering in base64.

Install

npm install aws-serverless-swagger-ui

Usage

Configure your API Gateway:

• Create a resource which will serve your sagger UI (ex: /docs)
• Create a resource of type "proxy resource" (ex: /docs/{proxy+})
• Create a method ANY
• Create a lambda function of type "LAMBDA_PROXY"

In your AWS lambda function, include this package as follows:

const swaggerUi = require('aws-serverless-swagger-ui');
const swaggerHandler = swaggerUi.setup('swagger.yaml');


exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {
    return (await swaggerHandler)(event, context, callback);
}

Once deployed, access your swagger ui at : https://your-api-gateway-endpoint/your-mount-path/index.html

Restrictions

Because API Gateway doesn't match the root folder with {proxy+} definition, your default URL should contain index.html. We suggest creating a mock integration on your main folder to return a 301. (ex: /docs => 301 => /docs/index.html) I explain and provide the terraform code to achieve this in this post How to easily create a HTTP 301 redirection with AWS API Gateway

Logs

You can print some logs by setting the Environment Variable DEBUG