---
title: "How to Automatically Consume RESTful APIs in Your Frontend"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-automatically-consume-restful-apis-in-your-frontend-kw0n8jxvw
source_url: https://dev.to/vorillaz/how-to-automatically-consume-restful-apis-in-your-frontend-48ba
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2024-01-28T15:41:24.161Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:58:27.770Z
tags: ["react", "backend", "automation", "vuejs", "openapi", "fastify"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 59
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How to Automatically Consume RESTful APIs in Your Frontend

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 10 min read · 59 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Automating the consumption of RESTful APIs in the frontend using Swagger and OpenAPI can significantly reduce boilerplate code, improve efficiency, and enhance collaboration between frontend and backend teams.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@kkurko** · 0 upvotes

> I work with OpenAPI and my current project, and our frontend setup includes [openapi-typescript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/openapi-typescript) and [openapi-typescript-fetch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/openapi-typescript-fetch). This setup requires more boilerplate, and you have to manually specify which endpoints you want to use:
> ```ts
> const API = {
>   getUsers: fetcherUserManagement
>     .path("/users")
>     .method("get")
>     .create(),
> }
> ```
>
> But this is what we wanted to have: our API is also available as an SDK, and there are many more endpoints available than our frontend needs, so...

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