Lauret Arnaud. The Design of Web APIs

Manning Publications, 2019. — 456 p. — ISBN: 978-1617295102.The Design of Web APIs is a practical, example-packed guide to crafting extraordinary web APIs. Author Arnaud Lauret demonstrates fantastic design principles and techniques you can apply to both public and private web 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.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 designsFundaments of API design
What is API design?
Designing an API for its users
Disigning a programming interface
Describing an API with API description formatUsable API design
Designing a straightforward API
Designing a predictable API
Designing a concise and well-organized APIContextual 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