Rest API - Best Practices - Design

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✏️📘 Summary Notes: 1levelup.dev/blog/consistent-...
0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - Stateless API
2:29 - Making Stateful Apps Stateless
4:37 - No action for the API
7:52 - Do not return plain text
9:35 - Recipe for disaster
12:38 - Handling Exceptions
14:26 - Worth to HATEOAS?

[@luczztem]

I've never seen a so well made video about APIs, and I watch a LOT of coding related content! Congrats and thanks bro this one is a gem.

[@DannyLearnsPega]

Great content. Straight to the point. :)
If you don't mind me asking, what software do you use for your animations and texts?

[@awaitingforsunrise]

Very useful and quite understandable. Very good quality. Thank you!

[@MrChest001]

This video just made me to re-learn everything I know about Rest API

[@collinskariuki7089]

Thank you so much for this. This video is very informative, straight to the point and so well done

[@julienwickramatunga7338]

Very nicely explained, thanks a lot!

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[@AzizHe01]

Great video!
Where do you make your slides?

[@adesh116]

Could you please expand on the uri naming section for real world scenarios.. i would like to know how to name apis for non crud operation ie what would your name your api that is used to upload or download a file, send out a notification or even login, signup, reset password for a user (as according to rest naming scheme /users/login isnt right as login is an action). This is something I see being missed by a lot of tutorials.

[@t0nn1x]

I don't want to upset you, but these are all CRUD operations)

It's been a while since your comment, but basically login, signin up, uploading a file could be described as different operations
login (POST): You request your credentials to be processed on the server and as a response you get authorization credentials
signup (POST): you send your data to register/create a new user
besides that, it's not a good practice to send credentials, passwords, usernames as URI parameters given that those could be sniffed by some middle man
upload a file (POST): api/files
download a file (GET): api/files/{fileId]
notifications:
- global notification for all users POST: api/notifications
- notifications for a given user: PUT: api/notifications/users/{userId}
- get notifications GET: api/notifications (based on the logged user you give back their notifications)
- reset password is a request to get something: usually as a POST, you send some data to be checked and used to get you a recovery pass or a recovery token or sth.

[@federico42o]

Nice video

[@user-ik7rp8qz5g]

6:40 why path parameter is better than query parameter?

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[@johanneskingma]

6:29 works only for nouns with a different plural spelling

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[@anasouardini]

I will still use POST instead of GET when the "read" query is that complex: REST is so dumb.

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