APIS

Rest Api

• 1. Core HTTP Methods

  Each HTTP method carries a specific semantic meaning. Choosing the right method for each endpoint is...

• 10. Authentication and Tokens

  Securing your API starts with choosing the right authentication mechanism and handling tokens with c...

• 11. Rate Limiting and Throttling

  Rate limiting protects your API from abuse, prevents accidental runaway scripts from overwhelming yo...

• 12. Security Basics

  Security is not a feature you bolt on at the end. These baseline practices should be in place from t...

• 13. Validation Errors

  When a client sends data that fails validation, your API must tell them exactly what went wrong and...

• 14. Caching

  Caching reduces the number of requests that reach your origin server and speeds up responses for you...

• 15. Idempotency

  Network requests can fail for reasons entirely outside your control — a timeout, a dropped connectio...

• 16. Error Handling Discipline

  How your API handles errors is just as important as how it handles success. Sloppy error handling le...

• 17. Documentation

  An undocumented API is an unusable API. Good documentation is not an afterthought — it is a delivera...

• 18. Deprecation Process

  Every endpoint eventually reaches the end of its useful life. A well-managed deprecation process pro...

• 19. Consistency Rules

  A well-designed API has a single personality. Every endpoint, every response, every error should fee...

• 2. Resource Naming

  Good resource names make an API intuitive to use. Follow a small set of conventions and your URLs wi...

• 20. Pre-Release Checklist

  Run through this checklist before you promote any API version to production. Every item on this list...

• 3. Versioning

  Versioning lets you introduce breaking changes without disrupting existing consumers. It is one of t...

• 4. Status Codes

  HTTP status codes are the primary way your API communicates the outcome of a request. Use the standa...

• 5. Filtering, Sorting, Pagination

  Large collections will crush your API if you return every record in a single response. Filtering, so...

• 6. Response Shape

  Wrapping every response in a consistent envelope gives you a stable contract with your clients. It a...

• 7. Including Related Data

  Fetching a resource and then issuing a second request for every related object it references leads t...

• 8. Field Naming Consistency

  Inconsistent field names across your API force every client to maintain a bespoke mapping layer. Pic...

• 9. Datetime Handling

  Datetime fields are a surprisingly common source of bugs in API integrations. Agreeing on a single f...