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Design and Build Great Web APIs
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Design and Build Great Web APIs

by Mike Amundsen
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
8h 39m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Your API Project Assets Checklist

The following is the general assets list I use to start an API project.

  1. API story document: MUST
    • See Writing the API Story
    • Recommend using an approved template/pattern for stories
    • As a —– I want to —– so that —–
    • Purpose, Data, Actions, Rules, Processes
      • Recommend collecting supporting documents (forms, write-ups, wireframes, and so on)

      • If available, include output from event-storming or other sessions

  2. API diagram: MUST
  3. API vocabulary list: SHOULD
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