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REST API Design Guide Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by [deleted]

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Principles

An API is a set of requir­ements that govern inter-app commun­ication allowing data sharing and execution of actions.
Design with an API consumer in mind. Remove ambiguity and provide one way to accomplish a task.
APIs should have affordance - the design should make the purpose intuit­ively obvious and take the consumer down the right road.

URIs

Resource Naming:
API