What problem does it solve?
It helps you design and standardize web APIs so choices like REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC, response envelopes, pagination, versioning, auth, rate limiting, and documentation are made deliberately and stay consistent over time.
Core Features & Use Cases
- API style selection: Decide between REST, GraphQL, and tRPC based on consumer needs (public vs internal), frontend type safety, and data complexity.
- REST fundamentals: Use resource-based naming, correct HTTP methods, and appropriate status codes.
- Response format consistency: Apply an envelope pattern, safe error shapes, and pagination strategies (offset, cursor, keyset).
- API evolution planning: Choose versioning via URI, headers, query parameters, or intentional no-versioning for controlled contexts.
- Security and abuse protection: Select authentication patterns and add rate limiting plus an OWASP API-focused testing checklist.
- Documentation guidance: Ensure OpenAPI/Swagger docs include schemas, auth, errors, examples, and rate-limit details.
Quick Start
Ask the AI to help you design an API for your use case by specifying your consumers, preferred API style, required auth method, desired pagination approach, and the response/error format you want to standardize.