Design and Build Great Web APIs

How This Book Is Organized

The book is organized into five parts: Getting Started, The Design Phase, The Build Phase, The Release Phase, and Appendixes. Each part marks a key set of skills in the journey from thinking about APIs to actually getting them up and running in production. The following is a quick summary of each of the five parts of the book.

Part I: Getting Started

The first part helps set the foundation for the world of APIs on the web. We first explore what it means to adopt an “API-First” approach to designing and building APIs. We then get some background on the existing services we’ll be working with and our plan for implementing an API requested by a fictitious customer, BigCo, Inc.

In the second chapter, we spend time exploring ...