13 Growing APIs
This chapter covers
- API lifecycle
- API design guidelines
- API reviews
- Communication and community
Throughout this book, we have expanded our vision of API design and APIs in general beyond simple application programming interfaces floating in the air. This is especially true of the four previous chapters. In chapters 10 and 11, you saw how to pay attention to not only the consumer’s but also the provider’s context to design realistic APIs that will be implementable and will fulfill consumers' needs in the most efficient way. And by thinking beyond an API’s current version, you learned in chapter 9 to create API designs that reduce the risk of introducing breaking changes when modifying them.
Designing APIs requires us to think ...
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