What problem does it solve?
Designing, maintaining, and scaling REST APIs often leads to inconsistent resource naming, unclear HTTP semantics, poor pagination and error handling, and brittle versioning that frustrates integrators and increases maintenance costs.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Resource and URL conventions: guidance on plural nouns, kebab-case, and sub-resources to keep endpoints predictable.
- HTTP semantics & status codes: mappings of methods to intent and recommended status codes for success, client, and server errors.
- Pagination, filtering, sorting, and search: when to use offset vs cursor pagination and patterns for filtering and sparse fieldsets.
- Error responses and rate limiting: standardized error schema, headers for rate limiting, and deprecation/versioning policies.
- Use Cases: designing new public or partner-facing APIs, performing API contract reviews, and defining pagination/versioning strategies for production services.
Quick Start
Design a paginated REST endpoint for users that uses kebab-case resource names, cursor-based pagination, appropriate HTTP status codes, and a standardized JSON error format.
