Designing Web APIs is a book I read.
It's a book that offers perspectives on API design.
It covers not only the interface of API design but also starts from the very beginning.
- When designing APIs, it's better to focus on what users can do rather than the mechanisms. Focusing on mechanisms can lead to complexity.
- There was an explanation of a framework called Goal Canvas as an approach to uncovering API goals, which I thought was a good method.
- API versioning patterns include path, domain, query parameters, custom headers, content negotiation, and consumer settings (storing settings for each consumer in the DB).
