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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, develop, and deploy highly adaptable, scalable, and secure RESTful web APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788992664
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anupama Murali Anupama Murali
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Pethuru Raj Pethuru Raj
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Harihara Subramanian J Harihara Subramanian J
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Basics of RESTful Architecture 2. Design Strategy, Guidelines, and Best Practices FREE CHAPTER 3. Essential RESTful API Patterns 4. Advanced RESTful API Patterns 5. Microservice API Gateways 6. RESTful Services API Testing and Security 7. RESTful Service Composition for Smart Applications 8. RESTful API Design Tips 9. A More In-depth View of the RESTful Services Paradigm 10. Frameworks, Standard Languages, and Toolkits 11. Legacy Modernization to Microservices-Centric Apps 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

API design best practices

Let's think about who the consumers of any web service APIs are. Will it be another system, another software application, or an end-user? Mostly, the consumers of the APIs are another software application or another system itself. So, we can conclude that the customers of any API will be the app developers who give life to the software make it purposeful and usable by their programming codes. So the APIs are heavily dependent on the application developers or app developers.

So application developers should be the primary focus of API design, and for them to consume the APIs, there should be defined and accessible business functions. Please do remember that without any application developer or app developers ready to use the API, the API will cease to exist.

The following is a list of best practices used by API designers to produce APIs that app...

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