API Design Principles

Master REST API design principles to build intuitive, scalable, and maintainable APIs. This skill focuses on design theory - for implementation patterns, see abp-api-implementation or abp-service-patterns.

When to Use This Skill

• Designing new REST API contracts
• Reviewing API specifications before implementation
• Establishing API design standards for your team
• Planning API versioning and evolution strategy
• Creating developer-friendly API documentation

Audience

• Backend Architects - API contract design
• Tech Leads - Standards and review
• Business Analysts - Understanding API capabilities

For Implementation: Use abp-service-patterns for AppService code, api-response-patterns for response wrappers, fluentvalidation-patterns for validation.