Using Swashbuckle.AspNetCore at build time

Question

Is there any built-in way with Swashbuckle for ASP.NET Core to generate the swagger.json file at build or compile time (i.e. not with dotnet run)?

I'm starting down a path of microservices and I thought it would be nice to generate the swagger.json file at build time to allow other services to generate client APIs.

Answer 1

You can use the Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Cli to do this.

The CLI is versioned alongside the main package Swashbuckle.AspNetCore, so despite at the time of writing the readme saying use version 2.1.0-beta1, use the version that matches your use of Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.