api-best-practices

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you avoid common pitfalls in API design, ensuring you build intuitive, secure, and high-performing RESTful services that developers love to use.

Core Features & Use Cases

• RESTful Design & Versioning: Guides on resource-oriented design, HTTP methods, status codes, and URL/header versioning strategies.
• Security & Error Handling: Covers JWT, OAuth, API keys, input validation, CORS, rate limiting, and standardized error responses.
• OpenAPI Documentation: Provides patterns for creating comprehensive API specifications using OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Use Case: When designing a new microservice, use this Skill to define its API endpoints, authentication mechanisms, error handling, and versioning strategy, ensuring it's robust and future-proof from day one.

Quick Start

"I'm designing a new REST API for user management. Guide me through the best practices for defining endpoints, choosing HTTP methods, and handling authentication using JWT."