The API Commons is focused on public sharing of API definitions, encouraging collaboration and re-use of the best API design patterns, from across the space, while also forcing the critical topic ...

Embrace the request-endpoint-response design pattern to simplify API development and make your code cleaner, more efficient, and easier to maintain.

By understanding API design patterns, and following best practices, you can create APIs that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and easy to use.

RESTful design anti-patterns Far too often, you will see a supposedly RESTful system in which the designers have shoehorned every permutation of their API into a POST invocation. Just because you ...