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🏙️ Essential learning for people building APIs

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API Improvement Proposals Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#45 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 11, 2022
StackOverflow Best practices for REST API design Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#44 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 15, 2021
Time to 200 Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#43 · 1 comment · Opened May 25, 2021
Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#42 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2020
Supercharge your REST APIs with Protobuf Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#40 · Opened Jul 7, 2020
Ask HN: What is the best API documentation you have ever seen? Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#39 · Opened Mar 24, 2020
APIs for Beginners (freecodecamp 2h course) Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#38 · Opened Dec 27, 2019
use links, not keys, to represent relationships in APIs Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#37 · Opened May 12, 2019
Ask HN: What are must know concepts for back end development? Open

question

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dwyl/learn-api-design#34 · Opened Jan 22, 2019
User Experience Design for APIs Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#31 · Opened Nov 22, 2017
API Security Checklist Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#29 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2017
Additional resources Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#25 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 30, 2016
Should we investigate Apollo (GraphQL) ? Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#24 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2016
json:api Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#23 · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 21, 2016
Real Time Messaging API Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#22 · Opened Jul 5, 2016
Why are there are no PUT and DELETE methods on HTML forms? Open

help wanted question

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dwyl/learn-api-design#21 · Opened Jun 5, 2016
Swagger (OpenAPI Spec) ? Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#20 · Opened Jun 5, 2016
Single-Endpoint API ? Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#19 · Opened Jun 4, 2016
Add Section to Readme on using AWS API Gateway Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#18 · Opened Jan 24, 2016
Why Your Colleagues Still Don’t Understand Hypermedia APIs Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#14 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 21, 2015
Add section on httpie for command line API discovery Open

enhancement help wanted

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dwyl/learn-api-design#13 · Opened Jun 30, 2015
Transfer ReST API Useful Links from learn-hapi to here? Open

enhancement help wanted question

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dwyl/learn-api-design#11 · Opened Jun 30, 2015
REST API Error Messages? Open

bug enhancement help wanted question

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dwyl/learn-api-design#9 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 20, 2015
Add section on using Lout API Doc Generator Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#8 · Opened Feb 18, 2015
Rate Limiting? Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#6 · Opened Feb 14, 2015
list of desired fields as a url parameter Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#5 · Opened Feb 14, 2015
How do we design for caching out-of-the-box? Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#4 · Opened Feb 14, 2015
Should we Version our APIs? Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#3 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 13, 2015
Create Socket.io (Streaming API) Example Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#2 · Opened Feb 13, 2015
Add section on Streaming APIs Open

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dwyl/learn-api-design#1 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 12, 2015

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