Design and Build Great Web APIs

Preface

Welcome to the world of API development! This book is designed to help you go from start to finish on the path to designing, building, and deploying great application programming interfaces (APIs) for the web. Along the way you’ll learn a handful of important practices and principles that will help you design and build APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. You’ll also acquire skills in a wide range of developer tools, including tools for design, documentation, building, testing, security, and deployment. By the time you work through this book, you should have enough experience to tackle just about any challenge that comes your way.