Fake It Before You Make It: Mocking Your Way to Better HTTP APIs

Notes

For this talk my co-presenter and I created a demo website. Most of the examples are hosted there:

http://betterapis.com/

Further Reading

• About API Contracts
  • http://apievangelist.com/2014/07/15/an-api-definition-as-the-truth-in-the-api-contract/
• Comparisons of specification formats
  • http://nordicapis.com/top-specification-formats-for-rest-apis/
  • http://modeling-languages.com/modeling-web-api-comparing/
• Swagger / OpenAPI
  • https://openapis.org/
  • http://swagger.io/
  • http://swagger.io/open-source-integrations/
• RAML
  • http://raml.org/
  • https://ramlfications.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• API Blueprint
  • https://apiblueprint.org/
• Specification Format Converter
  • https://apitransformer.com/