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api-design-mode

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Design intuitive and consistent APIs.

Software Engineering#api design#openapi#rest#developer experience#graphql#api contract
AuthorHouseGarofalo
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides expert guidance and best practices for designing robust, user-friendly, and maintainable APIs, ensuring consistency and adherence to industry standards.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • RESTful Design Principles: Offers clear guidelines on resource-oriented URLs, HTTP methods, and status codes.
  • Request/Response Structuring: Provides examples for designing effective request bodies, success responses, collection responses, and error responses.
  • Naming Conventions & Versioning: Establishes clear conventions for URLs, fields, and query parameters, along with strategies for API versioning.
  • Pagination & Filtering: Details patterns for implementing pagination and filtering to manage large datasets.
  • Security Best Practices: Covers authentication, rate limiting, and request ID headers.
  • OpenAPI/Swagger Examples: Includes a sample OpenAPI specification for API documentation.

Quick Start

Use the api-design-mode skill to generate a RESTful API endpoint for managing user profiles.

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Name: api-design-mode
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