REST API Best Practices – Comprehensive Handbook

Hello Folks,

Today, we shared an article with you about the REST architecture and in our article we try to cover all the possible aspects which help you to improve the API designs. So, if you want to develop robust enterprise applications, follow these 12 best API best practices.

Many of you might have misunderstandings about the REST API that it has no standards but we are here going to list out some best practices which help you to develop best REST API design.

Let’s have a quick look.

What is REST API?

Let me start with the very basics, those who are new and have no idea about the REST, here is it’s defination for you.

REST - Representational State Transfer. It is an application programming interface. Mostly HTTPs communication protocol accesses it.

3 Traits For an Ideal RESTful API Design

  1. Easy to Work with, Easy to View:
  2. Tough to misuse:
  3. Outright & concise:

6 RESTful Architectural Constraints

  1. Uniform interface
  2. Client-server
  3. Stateless
  4. Cacheable
  5. Layered system
  6. Code on demand

Best Practices - REST API

  1. Use Nouns and not Verbs in URI
  2. Use Plural naming conventions
  3. Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS)
  4. Swagger
  5. Use only JSON
  6. Allow filtering, sorting, and pagination
  7. Performance optimization with Caching
  8. Error Handling
  9. Versioning
  10. Resource hierarchy
  11. Idempotence (Misusing Safe methods)
  12. API Documentation

If you want to know in detail about these points and how to implement Rest API Best Practices. Visit our article now.

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