bee:pre-dev-api-design

Defining an API contract before choosing a protocol prevents integration failures and rework. This protocol-agnostic approach specifies operations, inputs, outputs, and errors without committing to HTTP verbs or serialization formats, ensuring clarity before technology selection.

To design a BFF contract, define optimized data contracts tailored for Backend-for-Frontend layers. This process enforces organizational naming standards and documents public operations, data structures, and error handling before any microservice implementation begins.

The best way to enforce organizational API standards is by applying protocol-agnostic contract design rules. This standardizes API fields, data types, and error codes across backend service contracts and BFF layers, ensuring consistency before implementation.

Yes, you can define microservice interfaces without specifying HTTP verbs or URLs. This protocol-agnostic contract design approach focuses on defining operations, data structures, and error handling independently of specific web protocols or serialization formats.

You need protocol-agnostic API contracts when building new microservices or Backend-for-Frontend layers. They ensure all services know exactly what data and operations are available without committing to a specific communication protocol early in the design phase.

A protocol-agnostic API contract should include defined operations, inputs, outputs, data structures, and standardized error handling. It enforces organizational naming standards for API fields and data types without specifying underlying web protocols or formats.