api-development

Next.js API routes require consistent boilerplate for authentication, validation, and error handling. This skill standardizes route creation by enforcing reusable templates and utilities like getAuthUser and checkRateLimit to ensure reliable API responses.

Structuring Prisma-backed API endpoints requires consistent patterns for data access and error handling. This skill enforces well-structured Next.js API patterns with Prisma integration, ensuring guarded access and reliable API responses.

Rate limiting for Next.js API routes works by enforcing request thresholds to prevent endpoint abuse. This skill implements a reusable checkRateLimit utility that standardizes rate limiting across all protected API endpoints.

Yes, adding authentication to existing Next.js API endpoints requires applying standardized guard utilities. The skill provides a reusable getAuthUser function to enforce guarded access and consistent authentication across API routes.

Handling errors consistently across Next.js API routes requires centralized error handling utilities. This skill enforces a standardized ApiErrors class and logger utility to ensure uniform, reliable error responses across endpoints.

Prisma is supported for database data access but not strictly required for all API patterns. The skill standardizes Next.js API routes with authentication and rate limiting, while providing Prisma-backed patterns for database-driven endpoints.