API Concepts
Internal
Overview
A REST API is made up of resources and methods.
REST and Hypermedia Concepts
API
REST API
Websocket API
API Design
API Design or API Modeling.
API Contract.
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- Best Practices in API Design: https://swagger.io/resources/articles/best-practices-in-api-design/
- Building and Enforcing API Standards at Scale with Swagger https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/building-api-standards/
- Will Your API Design Process Scale? https://swagger.io/blog/api-design/will-your-api-design-process-scale/
Top-Down Approach vs. Bottom-Up Approach
The top-down API design and development approach is also known as "schema-first" or "definition-driven" approach.
TO PROCESS:
- https://howtodoinjava.com/swagger2/code-generation-for-rest-api/
- https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/five-reasons-you-should-use-openapi-swagger-for-your-apis
API Development
One of the artifacts of API development could be a client SDK. Tools like Swagger Codegen provide the means to generate SDK right from the API definition.
TO PROCESS:
- How to Build an API from the Ground Up: https://swagger.io/resources/articles/how-to-build-an-api-from-the-ground-up/
- Definition-Driven API development https://swagger.io/resources/webinars/definition-driven-api-development-how-oas-swagger/
- Why You Should Create an API Definition: https://swagger.io/blog/api-development/why-you-should-create-an-api-definition/
API Documentation
Documentation can be auto-generated from an API definition, or can be generated from an existing API at runtime (see Swagger Inflector, Swagger Inspector).
TO PROCESS:
- https://www.infoq.com/presentations/doc-restful-api
- Best Practices in API Documentation https://swagger.io/resources/articles/best-practices-in-api-documentation/
- Documenting Your Existing APIs: API Documentation Made Easy with OpenAPI & Swagger https://swagger.io/resources/articles/documenting-apis-with-swagger/
- API Documentation with the OpenAPI Specification & Swagger Tools https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/api-documentation-openapi-swagger/
API Testing
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API Mocking and Virtualization
API development can become cumbersome as the number of dependencies on internal and external services grows. A technique to deal with that is to mock API dependencies, and interact with them before the actual service is built.
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API Governance
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API Monitoring
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OpenAPI
API Handler
The handler and the business logic should be separated, even though the primary purpose of the application is to handle API requests.