Understanding an API life cycle
In order to build a complete API, we need to follow a systematic approach. Hence, we shall now learn about the life cycle of an API. It consists of four stages:
- Design: This involves architecting the basic skeleton of your API. This is the first and the most crucial step, as we need to take into consideration all the functional and non-functional requirements to build a logical structure.
- Simulate: After having a fair understanding of the initial requirements, we need to implement the API by using appropriate endpoints, methods, data types, and examples, and following the API design best practices.
- Feedback: Once our API model is ready, we can simulate our API using the mocking service. Also, we can test our API to check if the response meets the initial requirements.
- Validate: At this stage, we will share the API with other external/internal developers and collaborators and take into consideration the feedback received from them...
