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API-first development is one of the hottest technical topics nowadays since many companies started to realize that API serves as a multiplier to their opportunities—but it also amplifies the design mistakes as well.

This book is written to share the expertise and describe the best practices in designing and developing APIs. It comprises six sections dedicated to:The API design
API patterns
Backwards compatibility
HTTP API & REST
SDKs and UI libraries
API product management
We will discuss such concepts as:API-first development
Semantic versioning
Separating abstraction layers
Synchronization strategies, optimistic concurrency control, and eventual consistency in APIs
Bidirectional data flows, push and poll models
Strong and weak coupling of API entities
The REST architectural style compared to modern RPC frameworks such as gRPC and GraphQL
Components of an HTTP request and their semantics
Designing a URL nomenclature and CRUD operations
MVC, MVP, and other approaches to decomposing UI components
API business models
Identifying Users and Preventing Fraud
etc.

This book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. Source code might be found at github.com/twirl/The-API-Book

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