Recommendation reading (books/blogs) for best practices while designing REST APIs

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/ExperiencedDevs

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  • api-guidelines

    Microsoft REST API Guidelines

  • This is a great, thorough and in-depth document from Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md

  • JsonApiDotNetCore

    A framework for building JSON:API compliant REST APIs using ASP.NET and Entity Framework Core.

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  • json-api

    A specification for building JSON APIs

  • There's also this spec, which is a good read: https://jsonapi.org/

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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