HTTP APIs

Resources

• 2000 Roy Fielding: Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
• 2008 Roy Fielding: REST APIs must be hypertext-driven
• 2017 Reflections on the REST architectural style and “principled design of the modern web architecture”
• 2018 Ole Begemann: Roy Fielding’s REST dissertation
• 2020 Sinclair Target: Roy Fielding’s Misappropriated REST Dissertation
• 2021 JJ Geewax: API Design Patterns (book)
• 2023 Alex Xu: ByteByteGo: Design effective and safe APIs
• Google: API Improvement Proposals

Misc

• Backends For Frontends
• Splitting Your Data & Application APIs
• Don’t Build A General Purpose API To Power Your Own Front End
• json-mask
• Webhooks
• Collection+JSON - Hypermedia Type
• Wikipedia: HAL
• HAL