Design and Build Great Web APIs

The Build Phase

In the build phase, you learned to apply Frank Gehry’s sketching technique to APIs in Chapter 6, ​Sketching APIs​. In Chapter 7, ​Prototyping APIs​, we looked at the prototyping ideas offered by the garment-making practice of creating a toile to test a sewing pattern to explore the details of our API descriptions. These practices enable us to learn quickly and improve the chances of us building the “right” API without spending a great deal of resources ahead of time.

Finally, in Chapter 8, ​Building APIs​, we got to bring all our design and implementation work to a peak through the use of NodeJS and the DARRT model to complete the coding of our fully functional API. You also learned that while the internal aspects of our API implementation ...