📘 Keep API from meaning UI screen
A backend API is a contract over HTTP — resources, status codes, and auth — not a screen. REST design and error shapes keep clients honest.
3
lessons
~15 min
to learn
Adults
level
What you’ll learn
- Contract over HTTPDefine APIs as HTTP contracts, not UIs.Methods, status codes, and bodies carry the interface.
- REST resources and errorsUse resource-oriented REST habits and clear errors.Clients branch on status; idempotency matters on the wire.
- Auth, docs, and proofSeparate authn/authz and ship docs/tests.A small artifact proves the contract.
Grounded in trusted sources
- RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics (IETF)
- MDN Web Docs: HTTP overview
- REST resource-oriented design primers
- OWASP API security overview (context)
- JSON API representation practice notes
- Backend testing/documentation primers
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