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API & API Design: API Documentation Tools

API & API Design: API Documentation Tools

This issue delves into the importance of API documentation tools, how they improve developer onboarding, and a comparison of popular tools such as Swagger (OpenAPI), DapperDox, Postman, and ReDoc.

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API and API Design: API Keys & Management

API and API Design: API Keys & Management

In today’s issue, we will explore the concept of API Keys, how they function, and the role of API Management in maintaining security and performance in API design.

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API & API Design: Authorization Methods

API & API Design: Authorization Methods

This issue explores the most widely adopted authorization methods in API design, detailing how they work, when to use them, and how to implement them securely.

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API & API Design: Authentication Methods

API & API Design: Authentication Methods

This issue explores the API design's most widely adopted authentication methods, detailing how they work, when to use them, and how to implement them securely.

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Error Handling in API Design

Error Handling in API Design

In this issue, we'll explore best practices for API error handling, structure error responses, and implement a robust error-handling system in a RESTful API using Node.js and Express.

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Idempotency in API Design

Idempotency in API Design

Idempotency is particularly important for handling retries in distributed systems, network failures, and duplicate requests.

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Rate Limiting in API Design

Rate Limiting in API Design

In this issue, we’ll explore the importance of rate limiting, common strategies used in API design, and implementation examples in Node.js using Express and Redis.

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Pagination in API Design

Pagination in API Design

In this issue, we will explore the role of pagination in API design, compare different pagination strategies, and provide detailed implementation examples.

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Solomom Eseme
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Building RESTful APIs

Building RESTful APIs

This issue will explore the fundamentals of building JSON/RESTful APIs, outline their benefits, and provide best practices and code examples to help you design APIs that are both efficient and easy to integrate.

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API and API Design: How Do Server-Sent Events (SSE) Work

API and API Design: How Do Server-Sent Events (SSE) Work

This issue will explore how SSE works, its advantages over other real-time communication methods, and best practices for designing SSE-powered APIs.

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API and API Design: How WebSockets Works

API and API Design: How WebSockets Works

Let’s deep dive into WebSockets today and learn the intricacies of Websockets, including a simple program that shows how to implement Websockets into our projects for real-time application.

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API and API Design: What are Real-time APIs?

API and API Design: What are Real-time APIs?

In this article, we’ll explore how Real-time APIs work, common use cases, architectural considerations, and some best practices for effective design.

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Solomom Eseme