The Design of Web APIs
eBook - ePub

The Design of Web APIs

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Design of Web APIs

About this book

Summary The Design of Web APIs is a practical, example-packed guide to crafting extraordinary web APIs. Author Arnaud Lauret demonstrates fantastic design principles and techniques you can apply to both public and private web APIs.
About the technologyAn API frees developers to integrate with an application without knowing its code-level details. Whether you're using established standards like REST and OpenAPI or more recent approaches like GraphQL or gRPC, mastering API design is a superskill. It will make your web-facing services easier to consume and your clients—internal and external—happier. About the bookDrawing on author Arnaud Lauret's many years of API design experience, this book teaches you how to gather requirements, how to balance business and technical goals, and how to adopt a consumer-first mindset. It teaches effective practices using numerous interesting examples. What's inside Characteristics of a well-designed API
User-oriented and real-world APIs
Secure APIs by design
Evolving, documenting, and reviewing API designsAbout the readerWritten for developers with minimal experience building and consuming APIs. About the authorA software architect with extensive experience in the banking industry, Arnaud Lauret has spent 10 years using, designing, and building APIs. He blogs under the name of API Handyman and has created the API Stylebook website.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Titlepage
  3. Copyright
  4. foreword
  5. preface
  6. acknowledgments
  7. about this book
  8. about the author
  9. about the cover illustration
  10. Part 1: Fundamentals of API design
  11. Part 2: Usable API design
  12. Part 3: Contextual API design
  13. Index
  14. Lists of Figures, Tables and Listings