You're reading from RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices Master REST API design with real-world patterns, lifecycle management, and OpenAPI practices

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835885284

Length 406 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

.NET

Concepts

REST API

Authors (2):

Andrzej Jarzyna

Samir Amzani

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. The Apprentice’s Study – Preparing for the Craft

2. The “Why” of API Development FREE CHAPTER

3. API as a Product: Designing APIs with a Product Mindset

4. Understanding Application and API Lifecycles

5. Applying Domain-Driven Design to APIs

6. The Wizard’s Grimoire – Mastering the Fundamentals of REST

7. Comparing and Choosing the Right API Style

8. REST Design Constraints and Maturity Models

9. Constructing an API Design Domain Model

10. Designing and Managing Effective API Contracts

11. The Archmage’s Circle – Forging and Evolving API Contracts

12. Understanding the OpenAPI Specification

13. OpenAPI as a Contract: Best Practices and Implementation

14. Using JSON Schema to Define Your Object Models

15. Don’t Hate Your Hypermedia: Creating APIs for Humans and AIs

16. API Change Management: Strategies for Versioning and Evolution

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18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Applying Domain-Driven Design to APIs

This chapter deep-dives into how to incorporate Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles into API development. It demonstrates the benefits of DDD to API design, with a brief overview of DDD. It provides strategies for aligning API design with business domains, ensuring that APIs accurately reflect and serve business needs and ubiquitous language. This chapter is essential for anyone aiming to create APIs that are not only technically sound but also business relevant.

By the end of the chapter, you will understand the importance of aligning business vocabulary and how to materialize your business domains in your APIs. You’ll have also learned how to avoid the pitfalls of CRUD-based REST APIs and API design anti-patterns.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics: