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Backend & API Design Good First Issues

Open issues about Backend & API Design from GitHub projects in every language. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly, and the subject's other names are matched too.

Backend & API Design

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1.1M
New this week
44k
Nobody on it yet
1M
Average difficulty
3.9/5

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  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.9/5 across 1,285,532 issues.
  • 10% of 1,285,532 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 1, 2026.

About Backend & API Design

Backend and API work covers the server side of applications: business logic, REST and GraphQL APIs, and the contracts between services. Issues filed as backend or API work are listed here too.

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How many Backend & API Design issues are open here?
1,104,248 open issues: 44,029 opened in the last seven days, and 967,549 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
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