#REST
5 articles
Comparing API Styles: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Webhooks, WebSocket, and Messaging
Six common API styles, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Webhooks, WebSocket, and Messaging, compared side by side. This article organizes them by communication model, lays out each style's overview, design considerations, and pros and cons, and gives guidance for choosing. A map for picking a style in API design.
When to Use GraphQL: Adoption Criteria and Trade-offs
When should you adopt GraphQL? This guide covers its core ideas (a typed schema, a single endpoint, fetching exactly what you need), where it fits and where it does not, the trade-offs, operational concerns such as N+1, and how it compares with REST and gRPC.
Comparing API Versioning Strategies: Path, Query, Header, and Payload
A concise comparison of four API versioning strategies — path, query parameter, header, and message payload — covering their pros, cons, and best fit.
What is GraphQL
Understand GraphQL as a query language for APIs with flexible data selection, single endpoint, and type system advantages.
Creating a Rest API with Laravel
Create Laravel REST APIs using ResourceControllers with authentication middleware and JSON responses.