I recently joined a company that builds all of its APIs this way, and I'm not looking back. It's so much easier to communicate across teams and tech stacks when

I recently joined a company that builds all of its APIs this way, and I'm not looking back. It's so much easier to communicate across teams and tech stacks when we can send them a PR with a proposed endpoint contract. Plus, people always come and go and good API docs can help a new developer ramp up considerably faster.