March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 45m
English
JSON over HTTP APIs are the most common APIs on the web, and for good reason. They’re simple to build since most languages have JSON support built in. And they’re simple and accessible to use since JSON is human readable and you can call HTTP APIs via the terminal with curl, by visiting the site with your browser, or using any of the plethora of good HTTP clients. If you have an idea for a web service that you want to hack up and have people try as soon as possible, then implementing it with JSON/HTTP is the way to go.
JSON/HTTP isn’t limited to small web services. Most tech companies that provide a web service have at least one JSON/HTTP API acting as the public API of their service ...
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