What problem does it solve?
This Skill provides guidance on designing effective RESTful APIs and GraphQL schemas, helping developers avoid common pitfalls and build scalable, maintainable services.
Core Features & Use Cases
- RESTful Principles: Covers resource naming, HTTP status codes, response formats, pagination, filtering, and sorting.
- API Versioning: Demonstrates strategies for managing API versions.
- Rate Limiting & Validation: Includes examples for implementing rate limiting and input validation using libraries like
express-rate-limit and zod.
- Use Case: When starting a new project, use this Skill to ensure your API design adheres to industry best practices from the outset, covering everything from endpoint structure to error handling.
Quick Start
Use the api-design skill to understand how to structure a RESTful GET endpoint for retrieving a list of users with pagination and filtering.