Design and Build Great Web APIs

What’s Covered (And What’s Not)

The goal of this book is to give you comprehensive “front-to-back” coverage of what’s needed to get a new API up and running in production. To keep things focused, we’ll be covering the skills needed to create “RESTful” APIs. These are HTTP-based APIs that rely on the common request-response style used by the vast majority of APIs on the web today. There are other important API styles (such as gRPC and graphQL) that we won’t have time to cover in a single book. The good news is that most other API styles rely on the HTTP-based web API approach we’ll cover here. Getting a solid understanding of this RESTful style will come in handy if you want to explore other styles in the future.

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