Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
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API design principles

To create flexible, scalable, and secure APIs, an API designer needs a set of guidelines. We'll discuss the following essential principles:

  • Ubiquitous web standards
  • API flexibility
  • API standardization
  • API optimization
  • API granularity
  • API sandbox or playground

By doing so, we will be able to understand how following them will help us to design high-quality RESTful APIs.