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How Vercel scaled their API reference collection with Mintlify to meet the needs of their growing developer community

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2024

Vercel is the leading frontend cloud platform, powering millions of developers and teams building with Next.js and beyond. Its mission is to help developers build high-performant apps and websites, and that starts with how developers learn about and consume their APIs.

But producing polished API reference documentation was a drain. They were constantly updating their APIs and needed their docs to keep up, but generating guides dynamically from OpenAPI specs proved to be very difficult to get right - especially when it comes to rendering cleanly and responsively for developers.

Maintaining a custom system would take valuable engineering time that could have been spent on the core product.

Mintlify solved that problem. With automatic API reference generation from OpenAPI, Vercel’s team can publish up-to-date, well-structured docs instantly. Developers get an interactive, accurate API reference, while the internal team doesn’t need to waste cycles on maintaining docs infrastructure.

By adopting Mintlify, Vercel streamlined documentation into the same philosophy as its platform: fast, reliable, and developer-first.

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