Summary
In this chapter, we learned the basics of the API life cycle and API designs and navigated through the REST and SOAP APIs, RAML, and OAS. This chapter also taught us the fundamentals of API design and the best practices to be followed.
As a MuleSoft developer and architect, I’d suggest you to not get overwhelmed by the different aspects of API design. It gets easier with practice. Make sure you’re following the best practices and the industry standards. Try to get hands-on with API design, as this chapter is important from a MuleSoft certification perspective too.
In the next chapter, we shall learn about MuleSoft’s Anypoint Studio – an Eclipse-based IDE for designing Mule applications.
You can now try out a practice API and answer a few quiz questions to boost your API design confidence.
