Isn't it more work to write tests than code? Not sure that's the best argument against a technology.
You can easily hang yourself many different ways. The idea with Swagger includes some rules, which is what makes it useful. If you don't want that, then why use it?
It would be nice if you didn't have to write HTML to write a web page, but that's a constraint that has pretty well known benefits to end users.
Looks great vlad. It is true, this was the first known visual swagger editor and was a very helpful project (also open sourced). The Apigee folks went on to build the current version, a separate effort from the swagger-ui.
swagger-js uses the shred library (https://github.com/automatthew/shred) under the hood so HTTP connections between the browser and nodejs work the same.
You can easily hang yourself many different ways. The idea with Swagger includes some rules, which is what makes it useful. If you don't want that, then why use it?
It would be nice if you didn't have to write HTML to write a web page, but that's a constraint that has pretty well known benefits to end users.