Reactjs client for Swagger / OpenAPI API specification

Question

Background

Using Swagger Editor, I created a spec for my API. I see that Swagger also provide a "Generate a client" option in their Swagger Editor (probably using Swagger Codegen).

Objective

I want to generate a client and use it in my React app (created with create-react-app), and preferably enjoy some static typing capabilities (currently using flow).

Currently

None of the options in Swagger Editor there seem to work:

• javascript - provides a vanilla node module that you need to npm install it as a dependency to your project. Now, not only this doesn't have any classes / types, but also fails with: Uncaught Error: Cannot find module "ApiClient" at webpackMissingModule (index.js:17) at exports.ApiClient (index.js:17) at Object.<anonymous> (index.js:22) at __webpack_require__ (bootstrap 75f547b…:555) at fn (bootstrap 75f547b…:86) at new Index (index.js:87) at ReactCompositeComponent.js:295 at measureLifeCyclePerf (ReactCompositeComponent.js:75) at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper._constructComponentWithoutOwner (ReactCompositeComponent.js:294) at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper._constructComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:280)
• typescript-* options are not compatible with js, and I don't necessarilty know how / want to add TypeScript to my project.
• *-angular options are of course irrelevant.

Approaches

• Generate .ts file and covert it to flow. How??
• Manually adding the generated .js files to my project. Currently doesn't work as the generated code comes with its own dependencies.
• Add TypeScript to my project (should I replace flow then?). How??

Thanks

Answer 1

There is a simple solution until a generator is out to use dynamic implementation such as swagger-js