Just like you wouldn’t use salt instead of sugar in your cake 🍰, don’t misuse HTTP methods in your API
🔑 HTTP Methods 101:
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GET→ Fetch data (like peeking into the fridge) - 🛒
POST→ Add data (like putting new groceries in) - 🛠️
PUT→ Update it fully (replacing old milk 🥛) - 🗑️
DELETE→ Remove it (goodbye expired ketchup 😵)
🛠️ Essential Features:
- 🎯 Simple, clean design (no spaghetti code 🍝)
- ⚡ Caching = SPEED (like preheating the oven 🍕)
- 🔍 Filtering, ordering, pagination (like Netflix, but for data 🎬)
- ❤️ Health checks (nobody likes a broken app 💔)
- 🔁 Versioning = backward compatibility (don't break grandma's old links 🧓)
📏 REST Principles:
- 🧠 Stateless = memory-free server (like Dory from Finding Nemo 🐠)
- 🎭 Uniform interface (API should be predictable like your morning coffee ☕)
- 🔗 Client-server separation (like a long-distance relationship 💔📲)
- 🧅 Layered system (like onions… or Shrek 🧅😂)
- 💾 Cacheable responses (because loading again is soooo 2005)
- 🧙♂️ Optional code-on-demand (like API magic tricks)
✅ Best Practices You Can’t Ignore (Seriously):
- 🚧 Rate limiting (protect your API from overfriendly bots 🤖)
- 🔐 TLS for secure data (no one likes eavesdropping hackers 🕵️♂️)
- 🧼 Input validation (sanitize like you're fighting germs 🦠)
- 🌍 CORS config (because sharing is caring—but securely)
- 📝 Proper logging (keep receipts, just in case 🧾)
- 🔁 Idempotency (esp. for PUT/DELETE — no duplicate pizza orders 🍕🍕)
- 👮 Auth & Authz (don't let strangers in your house 🚪)
- 🗂️ Resource-based design (think Lego, not Jenga)
- 🗣️ Self-descriptive messages (your API should speak for itself 🗨️)
- 🧭 HATEOAS (let responses guide users like a GPS 🧭)
✨ APIs that follow these rules don’t just work—they scale, they secure, and they shine. Like your favorite superhero, but for software. 🦸♂️🧑💻
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