The API: 3rd Edition
The API: 3rd Edition
About the Book
API-first development is one of the hottest technical topics nowadays since many companies started to realize that API serves as a multiplier to their opportunities—but it also amplifies the design mistakes as well.
- This book is written to share the expertise and describe the best practices in designing and developing APIs. It comprises six sections dedicated to:The API design
- API patterns
- Backwards compatibility
- HTTP API & REST
- SDKs and UI libraries
- API product management
- We will discuss such concepts as:API-first development
- Semantic versioning
- Separating abstraction layers
- Synchronization strategies, optimistic concurrency control, and eventual consistency in APIs
- Bidirectional data flows, push and poll models
- Strong and weak coupling of API entities
- The REST architectural style compared to modern RPC frameworks such as gRPC and GraphQL
- Components of an HTTP request and their semantics
- Designing a URL nomenclature and CRUD operations
- MVC, MVP, and other approaches to decomposing UI components
- API business models
- Identifying Users and Preventing Fraud
- etc.
This book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. Source code might be found at github.com/twirl/The-API-Book
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