For a long time, REST was the de facto way to design APIs. Then in 2015, Facebook open-sourced GraphQL and marketed it as a hot new alternative to REST.

RESTful design anti-patterns Far too often, you will see a supposedly RESTful system in which the designers have shoehorned every permutation of their API into a POST invocation. Just because you ...

RESTful parameters promote an ease of use and resource access, but an improper setup can plague your search features and open the door for improper queries and paths that are difficult to fix.

Internal-Only by Design: tRPC is intended for internal APIs within TypeScript monorepos or full-stack apps. Avoid using tRPC for public APIs or cases involving teams working in multiple languages.

Kong Inc., a cloud connectivity company, is releasing a new open source tool called Insomnia Designer, offering a collaborative API design editor. Building on Insomnia Core, which Kong acquired in ...

About Swagger Swagger is an open source API framework, sponsored by SmartBear Software, that allows developers and teams to design, build, document and consume RESTful web services.

Read this 12-page guide to learn the keys to REST and API design. It covers how to make connections work and using URIs for identification, media types for representation, header+body for ...

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts ...