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API design principles workshop

Design or review APIs for consistency, usability, and maintainability

Apply API design best practices to create interfaces that are intuitive, consistent, and maintainable. This activity helps you build APIs that developers love to use.

50 minutes
practice

Overview

Apply API design best practices to create interfaces that are intuitive, consistent, and maintainable. This activity helps you build APIs that developers love to use.

Learning objectives

  • Apply REST/GraphQL best practices
  • Ensure API consistency
  • Design for developer experience

Instructions

Design/review APIs:

1. Define API resources and operations 2. Apply naming conventions 3. Design error handling approach 4. Plan versioning strategy 5. Create API documentation

Steps

1

Resource modeling

20 minutes

Define API resources and relationships

2

Interface design

20 minutes

Design endpoints and operations

3

Documentation

10 minutes

Create developer-friendly docs

Pro tips

  • •Think about developer experience first
  • •Be consistent with conventions
  • •Version from the start

Example outcome

API design document with endpoints, examples, and error handling patterns

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