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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Learning about REST API and its importance

In the first chapter, we learned about RESTful principles such as client-server, statelessness, cacheable, and layered, and we'll recognize and apply those principles to the low-level yet functional APIs in this chapter. Also, we will learn RESTful API design strategies and best practices that can help us to meet the challenge of any time, anywhere, and any device.

Let's think of an example—assume you're going to an event, where along with other activities there will be a screening of the film Solo (the latest in the Star Wars series), and you know that some of your friends joining the party aren't familiar with Star Wars and the earlier sequels. So being a tech geek, you wanted to help your friends with a simple mobile application that can send search results to your WhatsApp group as messages with details...

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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
Published in: Jan 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788992664
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