API Design Patterns and Best Practices
Blog post from Moesif
The text provides a comprehensive overview of best practices for RESTful API design, highlighting key principles such as resource naming, the use of HTTP verbs, response codes, and parameter handling. It discusses debates on singular versus plural resource names and the use of hyphens in URIs, as well as the semantic roles of HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and PATCH. The guide also covers response code usage, particularly in error handling, and explores different methods for passing parameters, emphasizing the importance of choosing the right approach for headers, query parameters, and request bodies. It touches on schema design considerations, the debate over using envelopes in JSON responses, and the challenges of implementing pagination, filtering, and sorting. Additionally, the text offers insights into Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for open APIs and provides a brief mention of GraphQL resources and tools for API design.
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