Design and Build Great Web APIs

Chapter 8Building APIs

In the last two chapters, we covered the work of converting our API design in the form of our ALPS document into sketches and prototypes. All of this preliminary work was done to explore possibilities and lay the groundwork before we actually committed ourselves to the expensive act (both in time and money) of writing code. The good news is that we’re done with the preliminaries. It’s now time to crack open our code editor and write some NodeJS that results in a fully functional working API!

The role of Gehry’s sketches, which we looked at in ​Learning from Frank Gehry’s Sketches​, is to test ideas out quickly. The dressmaker’s ...