Creating APIs

This page lists resources for people creating APIs. Make recommendations!

Books

• APIs: A Strategy Guide: Creating Channels with Application Programming Interfaces [O’Reilley 12/2011]
• RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World [O’Reilley 12/2013]
• REST API Design Rulebook [O’Reilley 10/2011]
• Irresistible APIs: Designing web APIs that developers will love [Manning 09/2016]
• The Design of Everyday APIs  [Manning 2019]
• API Design Guide Documentation (PDF)  [ReadTheDocs]

Websites and Web articles

• Create APIs with FRAPI
• API for Dummies Handbook (Third Edition)
• Google Cloud API Design Guide
• Haufe API Style Guide

Courses

• Coming soon… make recommendations!

Tools

• Open source tools to consider for your RESTful APIs [TechTarget; requires free registration]
• Tools for creating APIs in PHP:
  • FRAPI