api-patterns

Choosing between REST, GraphQL, and tRPC for API design requires evaluating your architecture, such as microservices or monorepos. This framework provides decision criteria to evaluate response formats, pagination, and documentation standards for selecting the right style.

Handling API versioning and documentation across microservices requires enforcing consistent patterns and response formats. This guidance provides prompts to standardize API versioning, pagination, and documentation across different architectural styles.

Applying API patterns for a multi-frontend architecture involves selecting an API style like GraphQL or REST and enforcing consistent response formats. This approach provides use case examples to guide API decisions across multiple frontend applications.

Yes, you can use tRPC for API design in a microservices architecture. The decision framework evaluates whether tRPC, REST, or GraphQL best fits your specific backend services, offering practical choices and versioning guidance for your selected approach.

You should reconsider using GraphQL for backend services when your architecture is a simple monorepo where tRPC might offer more direct type safety, or when REST provides sufficient caching and pagination without the overhead of a complex schema.