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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Jan 4, 2018

Understanding RPC, REST and GraphQL

Every API is following some sort of paradigm, whether it knows it…

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 26, 2017

API Versioning Has No “Right Way”

But it does have quite a few bad ideas.

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Oct 20, 2017

Let’s Stop Building APIs Around a Network Hack

JSON-API has been one of the most popular standards for API development for a while now. It was conceived in 2013, battled through some rather different RC versions (changing drastically as it went), finally stabilizing with v1.0 back in mid-2015.

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Feb 5, 2018

The Many Amazing Uses of JSON Schema: Client-side Validation

These days type systems are all the rage in APIs, and with gRPC and GraphQL fans touting their baked in systems. REST fans have a few options for type systems, but JSON Schema seems to be powering forwards as the primary…

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 23, 2018

JSON API, OpenAPI and JSON Schema Working in Harmony

A regular question on Twitter, at WeWork, and in the APIs You Won’t Hate Slack community, is: “What standard should my API follow? Should it be JSON API or something else?” At which point a bunch of people usually start discussing things…

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

May 16, 2018

What is API Rate Limiting All About?

Something API clients (applications talking to APIs) are not often aware of, but run into…

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 25, 2017

PUT vs PATCH vs JSON-PATCH

What is the difference between them?

A question that is asked with increasing regularity in the APIs You Won’t Hate Slack Group is one which has been asked for years, but does not always have a good answer. The question is:

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 22, 2017

Turning Contracts into Beautiful Documentation

Continuing on the topic of contracts — metadata that describes your data — it…

Aaron Hedges in APIs You Won't Hate

Jan 17, 2018

Getting started with JSON Hyper-Schema

JSON Hyper-Schema is close to becoming an official spec, so let’s see what it’s all about.

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Aug 12, 2017

Representing State in REST and GraphQL

Representing state is a complex thing. At my last two jobs, it’s been very common for APIs to be treated like “databases over HTTP”. The fields are sent up and down from the server to multiple mobile/web apps, and there’s not too much else going on.

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