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Beginner-friendly, API-first Laravel path: 10 progressive projects covering resources, auth, search, multi-tenancy, webhooks, rate limits, and GraphQL.

Tired of frontend frameworks, build tools, and hydration hell? See how Laravel’s Blade partials and HTMX give you dynamic UI without the bloat

API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs: public interfaces for communicating with a program, like this one from Twilio. I’ve spent a lot of time…

When talking about REST, it is worth reading the dissertation of Roy Thomas Fielding. The original paper that describes RESTful web, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” Roy T. Fielding (2000), introduces the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style as a framework for designing scalable, performant, and maintainable networked systems, particularly web services.

OpenAPI to TypeScript, React-Query, Zod, Faker.js, MSW, MCP and Axios.

Explore the surprisingly different security standards we apply to webhooks versus traditional API requests.

Effortless API documentation tool for Laravel applications. Swagger alternative. - rakutentech/laravel-request-docs

Protect your users from malware and inappropriate content with Packetly’s simple, S3-compatible content identification API. Easily integrate our powerful security tools into your existing infrastructure and ensure your customers' safety with minimal effort.

Apitally is a simple API monitoring and analytics tool that provides intuitive dashboards with metrics, logs and alerts. Just add a few lines of code.

This is a work in progress, but I think it’s worth sharing. Please give it a look and let me know what you think. Thanks!

Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-ffmpeg compatibility, queues and S3 storage. - StreamPot/StreamPot

The API database architecture - Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints

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It might be surprising to hear the co-founder of a GraphQL company say you probably don't need it. Let me explain.

It’s beautiful to see the industry finally adopt a superior technique for API versioning: rolling versions. Last week, Sequence adopted rolling versions as the versioning scheme for their API. Ten years ago, this scheme was unheard of, but fast-forward to this day, and it is fast becoming ubiquitous thanks to Stripe for inventing and popularising this technique with their article — APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning.

Proxy server that generates API specs for any app or website on localhost. - Adawg4/openapi-autospec

The API Landscape

OpenAPI testing for PHP. Contribute to hotmeteor/spectator development by creating an account on GitHub.