Building Better on Box: Relaunching the Dev Documentation

The new Box Developer Documentation

In May, we announced the first major update to our documentation including fully open sourced reference documentation using OpenAPI v3, offline and mobile access, and better deep linking.

As promised in our May announcement, Box’s new developer documentation is going completely live for everyone today, with even more features.

• Improved search & 3x more content: you’ll have an easier time finding what you need, whether that be reference documentation or guides on how to make requests with code samples.
• Single source of truth, continued: The Box reference documentation and the Postman collection now both use our OpenAPI v3 specifications to keep these tools in sync with one another.
• In-page API explorer: test simple API calls to Box right from within the developer documentation without using any third-party tool.
• Japanese support: the first version of the Japanese site is now available with automatic translation to improve accessibility for more Box developers.

Take a look at the new developer docs at box.dev or developer.box.com.

We want to hear your feedback about any suggestions, issues, or enhancements that you might want in the docs. Please reach out to us via Twitter, on the developer forum, or through the site’s GitHub repository with any of those questions or suggestions you may have.

— Cristiano