Chapter 3Modeling APIs
Now that we have the groundwork set from the previous two chapters, weâre ready to start the process of building our Onboarding API project. And as you can tell from the title of this part of the book (The Design Phase), weâll spend time working on the various design aspects of API development that happen before we start writing code.
In this chapter, weâll take a look at some general theory on how interfaces work (UI and API) and then talk about how we can harness these interface patterns as we model our own API project. Along the way weâll learn about API stories and about translating these prose stories into API workflow documents. Weâll also learn how to use a very powerful toolâthe Node Package Manager ...
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