Using README-style API Documentation to Enhance Your API Design

This article discusses the use of README-style API documentation as a user-centric approach to enhance API design. It highlights the limitations of traditional API documentation, which often focuses on individual operations in isolation and neglects practical usage scenarios. The article proposes using README-style documentation to bridge this gap by presenting API usage through practical scenarios that demonstrate how operations are chained together to achieve specific outcomes. This approach offers several benefits, including improved usability, early feedback, and enhanced getting started guides. The article also provides steps for implementing README-style API documentation and an example of a user workflow with such documentation.