Modern Web Development 5 min read

Building Clean REST APIs

Representational State Transfer (REST) remains the bedrock of web API design. Designing logical API endpoints makes it easy for client applications to consume resources. In this article, we outline best practices: using appropriate HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH), matching response scenarios with standard HTTP status codes (like 200 OK, 201 Created, 400 Bad Request, 401 Unauthorized, and 404 Not Found), adhering to statelessness, and nesting endpoints appropriately.