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alpha-core:api-design

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Design and document any API style.

Software Engineering#api design#rest#graphql#asyncapi#contract testing#api gateway#grpc
Authorrnavarych
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you design, document, and choose the right API style for your needs, ensuring consistency, evolvability, and security.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • API Style Selection: Guides you in choosing between REST, GraphQL, gRPC, tRPC, WebSocket, SSE, and AsyncAPI.
  • Design Principles: Enforces best practices for evolvability, consistency, contract-first development, and security.
  • Reference Materials: Provides detailed guidance on specific patterns like HATEOAS, BFF, contract testing, and webhook security.
  • Use Case: You need to design a new API for a microservice architecture. This Skill will help you decide whether REST or gRPC is more appropriate, outline the OpenAPI spec, and suggest security measures like rate limiting.

Quick Start

Use the alpha-core:api-design skill to help design a new REST API for managing user profiles, focusing on versioning and error handling.

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Name: alpha-core:api-design
Download link: https://github.com/rnavarych/alpha-engineer/archive/main.zip#alpha-core-api-design

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