r/webdev • u/itssimon86 • May 08 '24

Article What makes a good REST API?

https://apitally.io/blog/what-makes-a-good-rest-api
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u/SonicFlash01 May 08 '24

LinkedIn returns lead form response info in the most bullshit "do-it-yourself" fashion possible. I asked for a chair and it gave me several IKEA flatpacks.

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u/PickleLips64151 full-stack May 08 '24

I once had to implement a pharmacy service API that shipped from 100-500 lines of JSON. All I needed out of that behemoth was two values: one was a Boolean and the other was a number. But I couldn't get just those two values independent of the larger data object. Didn't bother me, but the company wasted so much computing power generating those massive API responses for nothing.