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Discussion on: Benefits of using the OpenAPI (Swagger) specification for your API?

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Rohan Sawant

Question, Is there an easy way to set up the authentication and billing systems around APIs? I think, several times that is way harder to do than designing the actual API.

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I had the impression most frameworks would offer auth integrations.

But payment often is a problem. Sometimes you get a basic plugin, but getting the payment-flow right requires to dig so deep that you end up implementing the stuff almost from scratch.

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Rohan Sawant

I now remember we used tyk.io/ at my previous workplace.