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

17. Unlock Your Book’s Exclusive Benefits

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18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

The Archmage’s Circle – Forging and Evolving API Contracts

In this advanced part, you are welcomed into the archmage’s circle, where the most sophisticated arts of API mastery are revealed. Here, you’ll learn to forge, enchant, and evolve API contracts that stand as monuments to both technical excellence and enduring power. This is where your apprentice knowledge and wizard-level skills converge into the supreme abilities needed to create APIs that transcend time itself.

You’ll master the arcane tools of OpenAPI Specification and JSON Schema, learning not merely their syntax but how to wield them as living contracts that govern entire magical realms of development. We’ll unlock the mysteries of hypermedia to create self-describing APIs and confront the greatest challenge faced by all archmages: the art of evolution and change without breaking the ancient bonds of compatibility.

Within this circle, you achieve the ultimate transformation...