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Ask HN: how to build a good RESTful JSON API (best practices, etc.)?

by tunnuz on 7/6/2013, 10:49 AM with 8 comments

Hi everyone, I am completely new to making RESTful JSON APIs, and I would like to know more about the best practices before starting. Do you have any piece of advice / good tutorials to look at?

Thanks

by a3n on 7/6/2013, 2:49 PM
I'm not an expert. Here's a few resources I've collected:
http://www.restapitutorial.com/
http://www.restapitutorial.com/media/RESTful_Best_Practices-...
REST API Design Rulebook: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021575.do
RESTful Web Services: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529260.do
http://restcookbook.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfe...
by nreece on 7/15/2013, 11:50 PM
Checkout the presentation 'How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters' by Joshua Bloch (Principal Software Engineer at Google): http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf
by samufuentes on 7/6/2013, 5:50 PM
You can check some docu from apigee as well: http://info.apigee.com/Portals/62317/docs/web%20api.pdf
by johns on 7/6/2013, 10:50 PM
http://john-sheehan.com/post/18688963163/dont-build-the-best...
by theGREENsuit on 7/7/2013, 5:27 AM
[url]http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-res...
by andrewhillman on 7/8/2013, 3:27 AM
apigee dot com has a ton of white papers on this subject. well crafted too.