Design and Build Great Web APIs

Chapter 13Some Parting Thoughts

We’ve come to the end of the book. But really, we’ve come to the beginning. As we learned from Donald Norman, we’re all engaged in our own Action Lifecycle, constantly looping between our goals and the world, crossing the bridges of execution and evaluation. Just like the web itself, we’re living out our lives in a repeating request-parse-wait loop and, at each cycle, we get to learn something new.

I hope this book has been a positive learning experience for you; it certainly has been for me. The work of organizing my accumulated experiences and practices into a single volume turned out to be a bigger project than expected and, at times, seemed to take on a life of its own. The resulting content between these ...