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API Design Basics: File Uploads
How does a REST API handle uploading images or spreadsheets when it normally only handles JSON or XML?
Civic APIs
An exploration of APIs maintained for public record, with examples from The UK, Australia, and the EU. Plus, the latest from Jira REST API, Fast HTTP, Arazzo, and Designing APIs for Security
A Developer's Guide to API Design-First
Learn API Design-First to build clear, consistent, and efficient APIs. Master OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and top tools to streamline design, docs, and automation.
A Golden Age for APIs
The tech world looks more and more to APIs to get things done with automation. In this issue: MCP for APIs, Arazzo, GraphOS, TanStack Router, the basics of API Rate Limiting, and more!
API Design Basics: Rate Limiting
Keep APIs running smoothly by controlling how many requests clients can make.
...Surely you mean to call it OpenAPI?
How long can an old name last? We're still trying to get people to say OpenAPI instead of Swagger. Also: Vacuum linting, OpenAPI for Rust Crates, a new Nock, and more!
HTTP Traffic vs OpenAPI
Mergers and Acquisitions are shaping the way we use industry-standard HTTP tools. Also in this newsletter: A fresh Bun, Rails APIs with Clickfunnels, new Express release, and a wild exploit of McDonalds' API in India.
API Design Basics: Designing for Security
Keep these principles in mind when planning and designing an API, to sidestep major security issues before anyone even starts coding.
Clickfunnels and Rails APIs with Rich Steinmetz
Phil & Mike sit down with community member Rich Steinmetz to talk about Clickfunnels, its API surfaces, and what it's like to build a developer product with Ruby on Rails and BulletTrain
New Year, New APIs
In this edition of the newsletter: The Go Developer Survey, tools for working with overlays, Scalar's OpenAPI Parser, and OpenAPI Arrazo in Go!
Testing HTTP Middleware in Laravel
Learn how to create and test Laravel middleware to enhance API functionality while ensuring stability. Includes examples and tips for best practices
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Laravel's big raise
Everyone's favorite PHP framework made big moves this month when they announced a $57M Series A from Accel. Also: Api Versioning at Monite, Express 5.0, Arazzo, and detecting API Endpoints with Oasdiff.
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
2024 State of the API Survey
A primer on building APIs for saving the earth with Laravel & Shopify, plus the annual survey of API developers, which reveals commonalities across the industry.
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Spotlight Studio in Swagger Hub?
In this edition of the newsletter: HTTP 0.9, Fastify, SwaggerHub & Stoplight Studio, Fetch in Framer, and more!
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Back To Basics
In this issue of the newsletter, API basics and pagination, Git's superpowers, Arrazo, and fuzzing JSON for security audits.
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Postman's Turn For Layoffs
Layoffs continue to ripple throughout the tech world as Postman cuts the JSON Schema and Async API teams; however, all hope is not lost, as the industry continues to support both specs.
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Leveling up API Docs
In this issue of the APIs You Won't Hate newsletter: API Docs with Mintlify, OpenAPI specs with FastAPI, Backend exports, rate limiting visualized, queueing, Serverless framework, openapi.tools, HTTPie, and more!
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
GraphQL Is Dead
In this newsletter: contentious articles about the future of GraphQL, balancing API customization vs. cacheability, apis.json, the Scalar OpenAPI Parser, and a podcast interview with Vapi.
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Trees and Surving Other People's APIs
Surviving Other Peoples' APIs was featured on a recent episode of Leanpub's Frontmatter Podcast. Also: GoLang API Testing tool, HTTP -> HTTPS strategy, GraphQL Yoga, and more!
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
AI APIs: is this the End of Coding?
AI Powered API tools, a podcast interview with James Perkins from Unkey, Express V5, Node 22.1, reverse engineering Electron Apps, and a language that compiles to Golang
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Killing Your Products
In this newsletter: the downfall of Google Search, Atlassian buys Optic, buffer overflows for APIs, Stripe Workbench, Bruno for API Hacking, and JSONPath + OpenAPI
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
OpenAPI 4: Project Moonwalk
Learn about Version 4.0 of OpenAPI, nicknamed "Project Moonwalk", which is set for a 2024 release. Catch news about HTMX, API Docs, Cloudflare Go, and Bruno, an API client that works with Git.
📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter)
Revamping OpenAPI.tools
We've been working on a rebuild of our popular Open Source project, openapi.tools. Get an inside look at what's coming, as well as API news about Webflow, Laravel, Spectral OWASP, Deno, and OpenAPI AutoSpec.