api-design-principles

To structure REST and GraphQL APIs for maintainability, define your consumers and constraints first, then apply consistent patterns for resource modeling, errors, versioning, pagination, and authentication. This ensures intuitive and scalable designs.

Design an API plan by defining consumers, use cases, and constraints, selecting an API style, modeling resources, and specifying errors, versioning, pagination, and authentication. Validate your design using examples and templates from the implementation playbook.

Choose between REST and GraphQL by evaluating your defined consumers, use cases, and constraints. The API design principles guide you through selecting the appropriate API style based on your specific resource modeling and data fetching requirements.

For API pagination, errors, and versioning, apply the provided design patterns and checklists. These templates offer production-ready guidance to ensure consistent handling of these critical API components across your team.

Yes, you can use these API design principles to establish team standards. The Skill provides guidelines for reviewing API specifications and includes practical checklists to ensure consistent, production-ready REST and GraphQL designs across your organization.