The design of web APIs / Arnaud Lauret.

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part 1. Fundamentals of API design. What is API design? -- Designing an API for its users -- Designing a programming interface -- Describint an API with an API description format -- Part 2. Usable API design. Designing a straightforward API -- Designing a predictable API -- Designing a concise and well-organized API -- Part 3. Contextual API design. Designing a secure API -- Evolving an API design -- Designing a network-efficient API -- Designing an API in context -- Documenting an API -- Growing APIs.

An API frees developers to integrate with an application without knowing its code-level details. Whether you're using established standards like REST and OpenAPI or more recent approaches like GraphQL or gRPC, mastering API design is a superskill. It will make your web-facing services easier to consume and your clients-internal and external-happier. About the Book Drawing on author Arnaud Lauret's many years of API design experience, this book teaches you how to gather requirements, how to balance business and technical goals, and how to adopt a consumer-first mindset. It teaches effective practices using numerous interesting examples. What's inside Characteristics of a well-designed API User-oriented and real-world APIs Secure APIs by design Evolving, documenting, and reviewing API designs About the Reader Written for developers with minimal experience building and consuming APIs.