# Generating REST API docs by Swagger

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/generating-rest-api-docs-by-swagger/57862>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** phoenix, swagger, rest\_api\
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/generating-rest-api-docs-by-swagger/57862 "2023-08-25T15:15:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/generating-rest-api-docs-by-swagger/57862/7 "2023-08-27T13:35:23Z")

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But it uses the same approach: a lot of code-description next to each end point, right in the Elixir code.  
There’s no way to go around this, right? What I want is to keep the description of each REST API endpoint somewhere aside, in a separate file or files.

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