Do you work with REST APIs?


Tim Lane, Software Developer at ACME Corporation
Yes, that's all I work with. One team I was on for a while was experimenting with GraphQL, but I've never actually seen it put into production. I would say my APIs are almost always REST, or whatever that means. I, I read one time on, on level, whatever rest and hypermedia, but it really seemed like, like too much for me. I just use HTTP to make JSON available via different paths. I keep it simple, man. I do try to keep things plain language using resources. I use my HTTP methods and I put a lot of thought into how I expose different resources, capabilities, and other algorithms. But honestly, I don't sweat it too much. I just think a simple HTTP API will win out over any type of API just because it's really cheap and easy to use.

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