A good design process or methodology defines a consistent, repeatable set of steps to employ when working to expose a server-side service component as an accessible, usable Web API.

A custom wrapper for your Web API responses can provide meaningful information and ensure consistency regardless of success or failure.

Creating the Web API To get started let’s first create a console application which we would use to self-host a Web API.

<form.io> is an open source platform that enables front end developers to autonomously build backend APIs using forms to drive their apps. The platform provides a single solution for creating both ...

A look at some of the tools available to automate the creation of documentation for your Web API.

The Web API project is ready to accept resource-creation requests. If you have the curl command-line tool installed on your system (available from the curl.haxx.se Web site), you can issue a test POST ...

Springboard Startups: Web APIs are critical piece of cloud infrastructure —enabling businesses to monetise their data, provide services to 3rd parties, power mobile applications and migrate ...

Speakeasy also enables API producers to offer advanced self-service capabilities to end users, such as authentication, request replay and capture and API schema insight and evolution.