Summary of The Right Way To Build REST APIs
The subtitles from the YouTube video titled "The Right Way To Build REST APIs" discuss the importance of REST APIs in web development, the principles of building professional REST APIs, and best practices for designing, securing, and handling errors in APIs.
- Key concepts include the Representational State Transfer (REST) model
- Statelessness in REST APIs
- Token-based authentication
- URI design
- HTTP verbs
- Structured data formats like JSON
- Error handling
- Versioning
- The hypermedia as the engine of application state principle
Speaker
- Main speaker is not identified in the subtitles
Notable Quotes
— 01:07 — « Roy Fielding introduced the representational state transfer also known as the rest model back in the year 2000 in an attempt to improve the scalability and performance of network-based software systems through a set of sensible architectural principles. »
— 02:04 — « Rest APIs should be stateless. In a distributed environment stateless means client requests are untied to a specific server, servers dont keep session states allowing clients to interact with any server in a load balanced manner. »
— 03:31 — « Securing your APIs should follow all the best practices when it comes to security. »
— 04:37 — « Rest enforces a strict separation of concerns between the client and the server and these endpoints are the channel of communication. Good API design is organized around resources not actions or verbs. »
— 07:17 — « When developing software its always important to have solid error handling to prevent exceptions that could propagate to the client. The HTTP protocol offers a full range of response numerical codes to describe the outcome of the request. »
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