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About the Book
This visual eBook covers essential best practices for designing robust APIs using REST principles.
The idea of my visual eBooks are to enable building micro-learning habits just like scrolling through social media feed. It's a visual content with easily digestible format under 40 pages.
The book covers these topics in a very concise way with examples and learn why it is important,
- Descriptive and Consistent Naming
- Versioning
- Follow RESTful principles
- Use HTTP Status Codes
- Input Validation
- Provide Clear Documentation
- Pagination and Filtering
- Error Handling
- Rate Limiting
- Caching
- Content Negotiation
- Idempotent Operations
- Proper Use of HTTP Methods
- CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
- Authentication using Tokens
- Response Validation
- Nested Resources
- Use of Sub-resources
About the Author
Hi, I'm Param ?
I work as a Head of Engineering for Jobbatical. Jobbatical mission is to build the world without borders by simplifying the immigration process for tech companies and tech talents.
I started writing tech content for tech companies in 2019 and got interested in creating real-world example based content through workshops, webinars, and courses. I am a big fan of learning by doing. My books and workshops will follow the same principles by teaching the essential concepts while building real-world applications.
You can follow me on twitter to stay updated on my journey.