API as Art: Development, Support, Integration

The book details how to write a quality API and integrate it into an existing system. It discusses how to prepare API specifications, work with requests, serve mobile and server APIs for interacting with databases and message exchange, implement non-trivial business logic, and select an appropriate API schema even for the most complex and vague tasks. It describes how to ensure weak coupling between components, organize CRUD operations, carry out synchronous and asynchronous data exchange, in particular, perform push and poll operations. It also explains how to implement user authentication and identification. All material is based on the HTTP REST paradigm and allows for its development in accordance with modern realities and changing requirements.

For specialists in API design and support