Designing Web APIs

Designing Web APIs

Building APIs That Developers Love

Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, Amir Shevat

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API Design
REST
Developer Experience

About the Book

A practical guide to designing web APIs that are intuitive and easy for other developers to adopt — covering the full lifecycle from initial design and versioning through documentation and long-term maintenance, drawn from the authors' experience building Twitch's developer platform.

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Chapters

  1. 01

    What's an API?

  2. 02

    API Paradigms

  3. 03

    API Security

  4. 04

    Design Best Practices

  5. 05

    Design in Practice

  6. 06

    Scaling APIs

  7. 07

    Managing Change

  8. 08

    Building a Developer Ecosystem Strategy

  9. 09

    Developer Resources

  10. 10

    Developer Programs

  11. 11

    Conclusion

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