API Design and Documentation
Explore the fundamentals of designing and documenting REST APIs effectively. Understand how to use HTTP verbs, resource-based URLs, proper status codes, API versioning, and tools like Swagger or Postman for documentation. This lesson equips you with foundational principles to build scalable, clear, and maintainable APIs.
API stands for application programming interface, and REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. A REST API is a way for two systems to communicate with each other, and it’s the most popular type of API used today.
When building a web service, which is exactly what we are doing, a developer inevitably designs and documents REST APIs at some point. Now mastering the world of API design is tricky and tedious. There is a lot to learn and much of it is passionately debated ...