A complete and total re-write.

[daveshanley]

openapi-changes was originally built as a tech demo for libopenapi.

It's been pretty successful with that, over a million downloads and lots of use by companies in all kinds of interesting ways.

However, it's always been a horrible codebase, just horrible. I hacked together a system designed to power the online demo I built for it (now retired).

The entire thing has pissed me off, which is why I have not addressed many issues. I felt like I was patching a pile of shit, it was a horrible codebase. One of my engineers who was using it a while back didn't even want to submit features for it. I do not blame him; the code was just horrible. Kind of a patchwork sketch I never finished.

Today I change that.

I have been rebuilding openapi-changes, using all the power from https://doctor.pb33f.io, and significantly upgraded the tool with a much, much more powerful and robust HTML report that genuinely works fully offline.

The entire codebase is brand new, but based on battle tested libraries.

This is a 100% backwards compatible upgrade. You will just notice that everything looks much better and is much richer, much more useful, and has more features.

What you get.

A supercharged, ultra-powerful OpenAPI diffing tool with no other rival.

• A brand new beautiful terminal UI with the console command. I think it's great.
• A brand new hyper powerful html-report that contains:
  • A changelog style report of changes
  • A brand new tree navigator
  • New Change Explorer
  • New Diffing Engine
  • New Focused Diff View
  • Change List & Change Items
  • Two new themes
• A brand new summary command with a much more useful rendering of the change tree
• All new markdown-report with the same changelog style report generated in the html report, but in markdown
• Same old report command, but now with a few extra details.
• License is changing to Apache 2.

What it costs you? Nothing.

It is my gift to the open source community.