1. HTTP Verbs
β£ π GET : Retrieve data from the server
β£ π POST : Send data to the server to create a resource
β£ π PUT : Send data to the server to update a resource
β£ π PATCH : Send data to the server to update a resource partially
β£ π DELETE : Delete a resource from the server.
β£ π TRACE : Returns the full HTTP request received by the server for debugging and diagnostic purposes.
β£ π OPTIONS : Returns the HTTP methods supported by the server for the requested URL.
β£ π CONNECT : Converts the request connection to a transparent TCP/IP
tunnel for secure communication.
β£ π PURGE : Invalidates a cached resource.
β£ π LOCK : Locks the resource for exclusive use by the client.
β£ π UNLOCK : Unlocks the resource previously locked by the client.
β£ π MKCOL : Creates a new collection resource.
β£ π COPY : Copies the resource identified by the Request-URI to the destination URI.
2. HTTP Status Codes
β£ π¦1xx : Informational
β£ π¦2xx : Success
β£ π¦3xx : Redirection
β£ π¦4xx : Client Errors
β£ π¦5xx : Server Errors
3. Response Headers
β£ π Content-Type : Specifies the MIME type of the data in the response body.
β£ π Content-Length : Specifies the length of the response body in bytes.
β£ π Cache-Control : Specifies the caching behavior of the response.
β£ π Location : Specifies the URI of a resource that can be used to
retrieve the requested resource.
β£ π Server : Specifies the name and version of the server software that generated the response.
β£ π Access-Control-Allow-Origin : Specifies which origins are allowed to access the resource.
β£ π Set-Cookie : Specifies a cookie that should be stored by the client and sent back to the server with future requests.
β£ π Expires : Specifies the date and time after which the response is considered stale.
β£ π Last-Modified : Specifies the date and time the resource was last modified.
4. API Design
β£ π» REST : Representational State Transfer, a design pattern for
building web services.
β£ π» SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol, a messaging protocol for
exchanging structured data.
β£ π» GraphQL : A query language and runtime for building APIs.
β£ π» API Gateway : A service that manages, protects, and scales APIs.
5. API Architectures
β£ π’ SOA : Service-Oriented Architecture, an architectural style for building distributed systems.
β£ π’ Microservices : An architectural style for building complex
applications as a suite of small, independent services.
β£ π’ Serverless : A cloud computing execution model where the cloud
provider manages the infrastructure and automatically allocates resources
as needed.
β£ π’ Event-Driven : An architectural style where the flow of data between components is triggered by events.
β£ π’ RESTful API : An architectural style that uses HTTP requests to GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE data.
6. API Design Patterns
⣠𧩠Adapter Pattern : A pattern that converts the interface of a class into another interface that clients expect.
⣠𧩠Decorator Pattern : A pattern that adds behavior to an individual object dynamically.
⣠𧩠Proxy Pattern : A pattern that provides a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it.
⣠𧩠Chain of Responsibility Pattern : A pattern that delegates commands to a chain of processing objects.
⣠𧩠Observer Pattern : A pattern that defines a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and updated automatically.
7. API Security
β£ π OAuth : An open standard for authorization used for protecting APIs.
β£ π JWT : JSON Web Tokens, a standard for securely transmitting
information between parties as a JSON object.
β£ π _ SSL/TLS_ : Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security, a protocol for establishing a secure connection between a client and a server.
β£ π API Key : A secret token used to authenticate API requests.
β£ π Rate Limiting : A technique used to limit the number of requests that can be made to an API over a specific period of time.
β£ π OpenID Connect : An authentication layer built on top of OAuth that allows users to be authenticated across multiple domains.
β£ π Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) : A mechanism that allows many resources (e.g., fonts, JavaScript, etc.) on a web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated .
8. API Testing
β£ π§ͺ Postman : A popular tool for testing and debugging APIs.
β£ π§ͺ SoapUI : A tool for testing SOAP and REST web services.
β£ π§ͺ Swagger : A tool for designing, building, and testing APIs.
β£ π§ͺ _ JMeter_ : A tool for testing the performance of APIs.
β£ π§ͺ TestRail : A test management tool for planning, executing, and
tracking API tests.
β£ π§ͺ Dredd : A command-line tool for testing API documentation against its backend implementation.
β£ π§ͺ REST Assured : A Java-based library for testing RESTful APIs.
β£ π§ͺ Karate DSL : A testing framework for API testing using Gherkin syntax.
β£ π§ͺ HttpMaster : A tool for testing and debugging APIs.
β£ π§ͺ Assertible : A tool for testing and monitoring APIs with automated tests.
9. API Development
β£ π§π»βπ» Node.js : A JavaScript runtime for building server-side
applications.
β£ π§π»βπ» Express : A popular framework for building web applications and APIs with Node.js.
β£ π§π»βπ» Django : A Python web framework for building web applications and APIs.
β£ π§π»βπ» Flask : A lightweight Python web framework for building web
applications and APIs.
β£ π§π»βπ» Spring : A Java framework for building enterprise-level web
applications and APIs.
β£ π οΈ Swagger Editor : A tool for designing and documenting APIs using the OpenAPI specification.
β£ π οΈ _Postman _: A tool for testing and debugging APIs.
β£ π οΈ Insomnia : A tool for designing, testing, and debugging APIs.
β£ π οΈ Paw : A tool for designing and testing APIs on Mac OS.
β£ π οΈ API Blueprint : A high-level API description language for building RESTful APIs.
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