Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

Discover what APIs are, how they work, and their significance in modern tech. Explore the world of APIs including RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, GraphQL APIs and more.

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients.

If you’re exposing a public API, supporting multiple languages, or need long-term backward compatibility: REST is stable, battle-tested, and universally supported.

While you might be familiar with APIs, we'll get into how they work and how they can be used in this tech project, using low-code programming to check the weather with your home lab.

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts ...

SmartBear releases API exploration tool that supports REST and event-driven specifications, giving developers instant visibility into API limitations ...

For a long time, REST was the de facto way to design APIs. Then in 2015, Facebook open-sourced GraphQL and marketed it as a hot new alternative to REST.