Design and Build Great Web APIs

What’s Next?

In this chapter, you learned the importance of Donald Norman’s Action Lifecycle as a way to think about how we model our own APIs, and we introduced our own API action lifecycle called the RPW Loop.

We then applied our understanding of this common interaction cycle to model our own Onboarding API lifecycle. And we did this in two main steps. First, we mapped out the API workflow in a simple diagram to help us see the big picture. Second, we talked to people at BigCo, Inc., gathered up their handwritten forms, and created our internal cycle (or IC) documents we’ll use later when we need to actually design and then build our Onboarding API.

You also learned how to use the npm command-line utility as a project management tool. You ...