How to Design Effective APIs | Actionable Guide
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Covers concrete rules: start with a clear purpose, model endpoints from user tasks (example API includes search beans and a POST /brew that returns a brewed coffee), prefer consistent naming (use get beans/{id} not mixed singulars), design minimal-first calls to get a 200 quickly, return actionable 400 errors that say which field (e.g. bean) is required and list valid milk types (whole, almond, oat), and adopt API-first practices and versioned docs for safe evolution.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to API design
- 1:53Purpose of a good API
- 5:01API usability and consistency
- 8:55Error handling in APIs
- 12:12API evolution and scalability
- 13:37API-first design approach
- 15:00Q&A and closing
