Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
by Harihara Subramanian J, Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj
API design best practices
Let's think about who the consumers of any web service APIs are. Will it be another system, another software application, or an end-user? Mostly, the consumers of the APIs are another software application or another system itself. So, we can conclude that the customers of any API will be the app developers who give life to the software make it purposeful and usable by their programming codes. So the APIs are heavily dependent on the application developers or app developers.
So application developers should be the primary focus of API design, and for them to consume the APIs, there should be defined and accessible business functions. Please do remember that without any application developer or app developers ready ...
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