API design resources

doncote · September 14, 2013, 10:34pm

Can anyone recommend resources on designing (pragmatically) RESTful JSON APIs?

I’d be interested in eager vs lazy loading, how to separate resources, when to be more pragmatic and stray from strict REST, etc.

Thanks!
Don

samnang · January 31, 2014, 10:46am

I learn by looking at some well design API likes: github, stripe, and etc…
I found few very good screencast to summary about API design as well:

seanwash · January 28, 2017, 9:48pm

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