Chapter 8. RESTful API Design Guidelines
REST is a software architectural style, not a specification, for building scalable web services. Since RESTful web services do not have any strict specifications for designing and building APIs, you may find many interpretations for how the RESTful web API should work.
In this chapter, you will learn standards, best practices, conventions, and tips and tricks that you can apply to your RESTful web service applications today. Some of the important topics discussed in this chapter are as follows:
- Naming RESTful web resources
- Implementing partial response
- Paging resource collection
- Using HATEOAS in response representation
- Versioning RESTful web APIs
- Caching RESTful web API results
- Microservice architecture style for ...
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