Swagger UI Express
Express middleware to serve interactive Swagger/OpenAPI API documentation.
HTTP servers and APIs npm MIT
Used in agent projects
35
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in http servers and apis
#23 of 30
by use in those projects
Downloads
4.4M
npm, last 7 days, swagger-ui-express
GitHub stars
1,495
last push Jan 25, 2025
How Swagger UI Express is used
Swagger UI Express is a dependency in 35 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #23 of 30 in http servers and apis. The most used alternative there is Express. Projects that use it most often also use dotenv (74.3%), Express (71.4%), cors (62.9%).
Often used with Swagger UI Express
| dotenv | 74.3% of Swagger UI Express projects · 4.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Express | 71.4% of Swagger UI Express projects · 11.0× more than average |
| cors | 62.9% of Swagger UI Express projects · 18.9× more than average |
| Jest | 57.1% of Swagger UI Express projects · 10.3× more than average |
| ts-node | 54.3% of Swagger UI Express projects · 8.0× more than average |
| Axios | 51.4% of Swagger UI Express projects · 5.2× more than average |
| SuperTest | 48.6% of Swagger UI Express projects · 45.0× more than average |
| jsonwebtoken | 42.9% of Swagger UI Express projects · 22.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Swagger UI Express as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install swagger-ui-express |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (30), Python (2), Next.js (2), .NET (1) |
| Example projects | near/wallet-selector, Giveth/notification-center, gopaljilab/Clinical-Insight-Engine, kima-finance/kima-transaction-backend, ccivlcid/AgentDesk |
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