The Right Way To Build REST APIs

Best Practices for building REST APIs.

💬 Topics:
1. Richardson Maturity Model;
2. Stateless vs Stateful APIs;
3. Define correct REST Endpoints;
4. REST Endpoints responses;
5. Plain Text vs JSON vs XML vs YAML;
6. Handling exceptions in APIs;
7. REST API versioning;
8. HATEOAS
9. The HTTP protocol;

[lucaruana]

I've been trying to learn API dev for a while now and this is the simplest and most crystal-clear video I've ever stumbled upon. Thanks a lot!

[vexxxG]

Personal opinion: a restful endpoint should be or something along those lines. The path should only refer to resources by name or identifier, since active items returns a subset of a specific resource it should be used in the query string since it is a filter. Also, according to the spec, PUT is for upserting not only updating. PATCH is for updates only

[jaimieomondi]

The only words that i have heard today that make sense have come from this video...Greatly appreciated.

[fadhilinjagi]

The classical music in the background was soothing. The content was useful, thanks for sharing.

[louispetrik]

So much value in this video, amazing!

[mikec]

Fantastic. Concise, useful illustrations, and I like the way you built the concepts up layer by layer. I'm a new subscriber.

[siya.abc]

Awesome, thanks! I thought you were gonna squeeze it into a 3 minute video but I was pleasantly surprised to see it go on until I checked the video length 😅

[jamie_SF]

Thanks, this was very concise and helpful.

[TheDeluxeman]

Відмінне пояснення і анімація. Заслуговуєш на більше підписників!

[cslearn]

I recently quit web dev but i still come here watching cuz its interesting, and to like

[maguilecutty]

Awesome content! The knit pickers here can jump in a lake. It’s so hard to find actual production grade info like this! Chapeau 😊

[bone_broth_]

Great video. Just note REST isn’t the *only* option. RPCs can be great for internal API calls

[MarcoDamaceno]

HATEOAS maturity can be achieved by returning HTML instead of JSON. Then the client can parse the response or pick a part that is interesting like the url for example.

[em]

The representation of backend and frontend developers is spot on

[ChichaGad]

This was so clear and on point

Next, please do GraphQL

[SuperKavv]

Great video! Really clear explanation.

[brnto]

7:08 RESTful APIs can return HTML too! Like HTMX suggests, there is nothing more HATETOAS than HTML with its natural support for links and forms etc

[JustMax]

Would be interesting to see a video on event-driven architecture as well 🙏

[zorbak]

Awsome video man. Keep up the good work!

[koenv]

My preference would be to have a query parameter of status = active instead of putting active in the URL