Summary

In this chapter, we learned about best practices related to RESTful web services such as strategies for API endpoint organization. We also looked at different ways to expose an API service, how to handle large datasets, and designing APIs with pagination, filtering, and sorting in mind. Finally, we learned about naming conventions, the HTTP status codes list, and API versioning formats.

In the next chapter, we will look at how to design RESTful web services with OpenAPI and Swagger, focusing on the core principles while creating web services. Instead of coding from the start, we will describe how to design a web service first and prepare it for coding.