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In this episode, Scott and Wes talk about creating APIs — what’s happening behind the scenes and why it’s important.
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Show Notes 2:15 - How do you build an API from scratch?
3:54 - Choose an API type
REST

GraphQL

8:15 - Setup some sort of server that will accept requests and send responses
Express

Koa

Meteor

11:11 - Document the endpoints
What is the end point
What parameters are required Filters
Sorting

Headers required
What you get back when you hit this endpoint
Any request limits
Examples in common languages JS
PHP
Ruby

21:20 - Naming
Make it obvious
27:39 - Securing
Only accept requests from logged-in users oAuth
Cookie/Session
jwt

API key
CORS
Check roles - access level
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32:42 - Protecting
Rate limit
Whitelist / blacklist
Cloudflare

36:00 - Write resolvers
Modify data if needed
Send back the data requested
Send back the correct HTTP code
Log what happened
37:56 - Tools
Postman

Swagger

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