5 articles tagged with "rest"
Every service on your team invents its own error shape — {error}, {message}, {err.msg}, a stack trace in prod if you're unlucky. RFC 7807 Problem Details gives you one boring, predictable format, and boring is exactly what error handling should be.
You've been calling your JSON-over-HTTP CRUD endpoints 'RESTful' for years. So has everyone else. Roy Fielding would like a word — and understanding what he actually meant might change how you design your next API.
Your API's happy path is beautifully documented. Its error responses are a crime scene. Here's how to design error contracts that scale past your third client team.
You shipped a breaking change and now every mobile app from 2022 is on fire. Let's talk about API versioning strategies so you never have that 3am call again.
You shipped a \"small\" API change and now 3 mobile apps are on fire. Sound familiar? Let's talk API versioning in Express — how to evolve your backend without nuking your users.