Bookmarks tagged [api-design]
https://www.apollographql.com/blog/designing-graphql-mutations-e09de826ed97/
Designing a good GraphQL API is tricky, because you always want to balance utility and convenience with a consideration around how the API may evolve in the future.
The main points to consider when d...
- 📆 published on: 2017-03-28
- tags: graphql, api-design
https://xuorig.medium.com/graphql-mutation-design-anemic-mutations-dd107ba70496
Mutations are one of the trickiest part of a GraphQL schema to design. We spend a lot of time talking about GraphQL queries and how easy they are to use. However, mutations get far less love.
In this...
- 📆 published on: 2018-02-18
- tags: graphql, api-design
https://www.apollographql.com/blog/graphql-schema-design-building-evolvable-schemas-1501f3c59ed5/
While GraphQL allows us to continuously evolve our schemas, using deprecations for example, we should not take the decision of deprecating schema members lightly. In the end, a deprecation still requi...
- 📆 published on: 2018-06-01
- tags: graphql, migration, api-design, deprecated
https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on displ...
- 📆 published on: 2008-10-20
- tags: rest, api-design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDSR0x3GZo
This webinar: OpenAPI 3.0, And What it Means for the Future of Swagger, provides an in-depth look at the new OpenAPI 3.0 (OAS3.0) specification. Try Swagger today: https://swaggerhub.com/
We will als...
- 📆 published on: 2017-08-10
- tags: api-design, openapi, swagger-editor, swagger, api-design, openapi, api
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDSR0x3GZo
This webinar: OpenAPI 3.0, And What it Means for the Future of Swagger, provides an in-depth look at the new OpenAPI 3.0 (OAS3.0) specification. Try Swagger today: https://swaggerhub.com/
We will als...
- 📆 published on: 2017-08-10
- tags: api-design, openapi, swagger-editor, swagger, api-design, openapi, api
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/8/18/beautiful-native-libraries/
- tags: cpp, api-design
https://doc.qt.io/archives/qq/qq13-apis.html
- tags: cpp, api-design
https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design
HTTP API design guide extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API - interagent/http-api-design
- tags: rest, api-design
- source code
http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.
- tags: rest, api-design
http://blog.octo.com/en/design-a-rest-api/
Full guide tackling security, pagination, filtering, versioning, partial answers, CORS, etc.
- tags: rest, api-design
http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html
Explained by Martin Fowler, originally presented by Leonard Richardson at the QCon 2008.
- tags: rest, api-design
http://martinfowler.com/articles/enterpriseREST.html
Discusses the constraints and flexibility that you have with nonpublic APIs, and lessons learned from doing large scale RESTful integration across multiple teams.
- tags: rest, api-design
http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas
Clear explanation on what HATEOAS is, and why you should use it.
- tags: rest, api-design
http://www.infoq.com/articles/webber-rest-workflow/
In this article, Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson show how to drive an application's flow through the use of hypermedia in a RESTful application.
- tags: rest, api-design
http://www.restapitutorial.com/
RestApiTutorial.com is dedicated to tracking REST API best practices and making resources available to enable quick reference and self education for the development crafts-person.
- tags: rest, api-design
https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#readme
The Microsoft REST API Guidelines, as a design principle, encourages application developers to have resources accessible to them via a RESTful HTTP interface.
- tags: rest, api-design
- source code
https://github.com/shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist
Best practices about REST API security
- tags: rest, api-design
- source code
https://githubengineering.com/the-github-graphql-api/
GitHub announced a public API one month after the site launched. We’ve evolved this platform through three versions, adhering to RFC standards and embracing new design patterns to provide a clear and ...
- tags: graphql, rest, api-design
https://nordicapis.com/when-to-use-what-rest-graphql-webhooks-grpc/
Real world, specific use cases for REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Webhooks to help API developers make sense of which API design style to use for what situation.
- tags: rest, grpc, graphql, webhooks, api-design
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ParallelChange.html
Parallel change, also known as expand and contract, is a pattern to implement backward-incompatible changes to an interface in a safe manner, by breaking the change into three distinct phases: expand,...
- 📆 published on: 2014-05-13
- tags: api-design, rest, refactoring