The Design of web APIs /
Arnaud Lauret ; foreword by Kin Lane.
- Second Edition.
- Shelter Island, NY : Manning Publications, 2025
- xxxiv, 498 pages : illustrations.
Includes index.
What is API design? -- Identifing API capabilities -- Observing operations from the REST angle -- Representing operations with HTTP -- Modeling data -- Describing HTTP operations with OpenAPI -- Describing data with JSON Schema in OpenAPI -- Designing user-friendly, interoperable data -- Designing user-friendly, interoperable operations -- Designing user-friendly. interoperable operation flows -- Designing user-friendly, interoperable APIs -- Disigning a secure API -- Designing an efficient API -- Adapting the API design to the context -- Modifying an API -- Facilitating API design decision-making -- Optimizing an OpenAPI document -- Automating API design guidelines -- Enriching API design artifacts.
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.
9781633438149
2025414430
Application program interfaces (Computer software) Application software--Development. Web services. APIs (interfaces)