REST API Best Practices – Comprehensive Handbook

Hello Folks,

Today, we shared an article with you about the REST architecture and in our article we try to cover all the possible aspects which help you to improve the API designs. So, if you want to develop robust enterprise applications, follow these 12 best API best practices.

Many of you might have misunderstandings about the REST API that it has no standards but we are here going to list out some best practices which help you to develop best REST API design.

Let’s have a quick look.

Let me start with the very basics, those who are new and have no idea about the REST, here is it’s defination for you.

REST - Representational State Transfer. It is an application programming interface. Mostly HTTPs communication protocol accesses it.

Easy to Work with, Easy to View:

Tough to misuse:

Outright & concise:

Uniform interface

Client-server

Stateless

Cacheable

Layered system

Code on demand

Use Nouns and not Verbs in URI

Use Plural naming conventions

Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS)

Swagger

Use only JSON

Allow filtering, sorting, and pagination

Performance optimization with Caching

Error Handling

Versioning

Resource hierarchy

Idempotence (Misusing Safe methods)

API Documentation

If you want to know in detail about these points and how to implement Rest API Best Practices. Visit our article now.