Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

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Ideal REST API Design

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StackOverflow best REST API Design

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Heroku API Reference

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API Terms Glossary

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HTTP API Design by Heroku

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Learn REST: A RESTful Tutorial

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RAPIS: A REST API Standard for the 21th century

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IBM Watson REST API Guidelines

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Microsoft REST API Guidelines

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Zalando RESTful API and Event Scheme Guidelines

gov.uk API technical and data standards

How to (and how not to) design REST APIs

HTTP Status code table in RESTAPITutorial

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httpstatuses.com

httpstatuses.com is an easy to reference database of HTTP Status Codes with their definitions and helpful code references all in one place.

Status code definition in W3C

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HTTP Status Code Guides

Auth Boss

Learn about different authentication methodologies on the web.

Authentication Cheat Sheet

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The Problem With API Authentication in Express

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Web Authentication Methods Explained

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10 Things You Should Know about Tokens

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Cookies vs Tokens

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JWT Draft in IETF

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JWT.io

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Using JSON Web Tokens as API Keys

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Why Meteor doesn't use session cookies

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Guide on API authentication and authorization

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The OAuth Bible by Mashape

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Caching best practices & max-age gotchas

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Increasing Application Performance with HTTP Cache Headers

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Using Cloudflare with your API

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Helmet, help secure Express/Connect apps with various HTTP headers

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APISecurityBestPractices

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Node Security Project

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Node.js Security Checklist

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HAL

Simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between resources in your API (see: HATEOAS).

Hydra

Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs (W3C).

JSend

Simple specification that lays down some rules for how JSON responses from web servers should be formatted.

JSON API

Standard for building APIs in JSON.

JSON-LD

Standard for describing Linked Data and hypermedia relations in JSON (W3C).

OData

Open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs. Quite complex.

RAML

Simple and succinct way to describe RESTful API.

Schema.org

Collection of schemas describing common data models.

Awesome APIs Directory

A public list of APIs from round the web.

public apis

A collective list of public JSON APIs for use in web development.

apis.io

API Search service to help discover APIs on the web.

ProgrammableWeb

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Firecamp

Protocol agnostic API testing client which help you test and manage RestAPIs, GraphQL, Websocket and many more.

httpie

Command line HTTP client, far more dev-friendly than curl.

HttpMaster

GUI tool for testing REST APIs and services. Windows OS only.

jq

Command line JSON processor, to use in combination with a command-line HTTP client like cURL.

Insomina

A Fancy HTTP REST Client.

resty

Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh).

TestMace

A modern powerful crossplatform tool for working with API and creating automated API tests.

Beeceptor

Beeceptor helps intercepting API calls and mocking them selectively. Creates an endpoint for wrapping original API and routes requests.

FakeRest

Patch XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API client-side.

JSON Placeholder

Free online REST service that you can use whenever you need some fake data.

json-server

Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds.

Mocky.io

Free online service to create fake HTTP responses.

FakeQL

Mainly focused on GraphQL, but can mock RESTful APIs, as well.

PIPL API

Free and public API that generates random and fake people's data in JSON

API Mocha

Free online service providing fake REST API endpoints, create customizable responses and download rules as a Postman collection.

httpstat.us

A super simple service for generating different HTTP codes.

httpbin

httpbin(1): HTTP Request & Response Service.

badssl

Testing clients against bad SSL configs.

docbox

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slate

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whiteboard

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RapidAPI

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Readme.io

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GitBook

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PM2 by keymetrics

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morgan for expressjs

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Moesif API Analytics

. Log and Understand API Traffic.

Alteranatives to API Plug

9 alternative and related products to api plug.

Apiary

Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing.

wrapAPI, Build an API on top of any website

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import.io, turn web pages into Data

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RAML

Simple and succinct way to describe RESTful API.

Runscope

Automated API Monitoring & Testing.

swagger.io

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async-ratelimiter

Rate limit made simple, easy, async, backed in Redis.

hashids

A small JavaScript library to generate YouTube-like ids from numbers.

typeid-js

Type-safe, K-sortable, and globally unique identifiers inspired by Stripe IDs

Loopback

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Sails.js

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FastAPI

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rest-hapi

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API Umbrella

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ApiAxle

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KrakenD

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Mashape Kong

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Tyk

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WSO2 API Manager

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