API Design Patterns

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1. willmeyersSep 2023
   Geewax's API Design Patterns (https://www.manning.com/books/api-design-patterns) is a solid resource especially if you plan on using Go. It's based of Google's own API design principles: https://google.aip.dev
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2. willmeyersAug 2022
   Ah sorry about that. I think my comment came off as a bit rude after reading it back to myself. Backend development means so much nowadays I think it would be hard for someone to publish a general book on it. But maybe someone else has found something that I'm unaware of. I think you'll have the best luck collecting some general resources about different subjects. Here's some resources that I recommend flipping through.

   - Any up to date book on the programming language of your choice

   - Any up to date online course of the programming language of your choice

   - https://hpbn.co/ (networking)

   - Build APIs You Won't Hate (api design)

   - https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer (system design)

   - API Design Patterns by Geewax (somewhat opinionated, but overall good resource for api design)

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3. mhoadJan 2022
   https://www.bookdepository.com/API-Design-Patterns-JJ-Geewax...

   I loved it, think it all made a ton of sense. Lots of code samples, no weird technology choices (normally they would do it all via protobufs and gRPC but they keep the same principles and just use HTTP instead and Typescript for code samples)

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4. majkinetorSep 2020
   https://apisyouwonthate.com and their book(s) offer good advices.

   Not a book, but MS REST API Guidelines are pretty good although they don't cover funky important details like how to properly do REST operations/actions.

   https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines

   This is short one based on RedHat VM engineer experience:

   https://restful-api-design.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.ht...

   Manning has a solid books on topic:

   https://www.manning.com/books/the-design-of-web-apis

   https://www.manning.com/books/api-design-patterns

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5. slavomirvojacekMay 2024
   I have been working on this simple CLI to speed up generating API definitions with standard methods (as per the API Design Patterns book). Currently, both Protobuf and ts-rest are supported. In future, I would like to be able to fine-tune & improve APIs – perhaps with the help of GenAI. Any thoughts/suggestions/feedback much appreciated :)
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6. pottertheotterJan 2022
   https://www.manning.com/books/api-design-patterns
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