#api (129 links)
- Everything I know about good API design seangoedecke.com
- The Sorry State of States medium.com
Today’s Figma assets show design could align better with code
- HONC.dev honc.dev
HONC is an modular collection of choice technologies for building lightweight, type-safe, edge-enabled data apis that scale seamlessly to their demand.
- Sam Newman - Backends For Frontends samnewman.io
- Crafting UI Component API medium.com
- Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases simonwillison.net
A tool for creating and publishing JSON APIs for SQLite databases, instantly creating a url-based interface for accessing (but not writing) your data via JSON(o) calls.
- Contentful: a developer-friendly, API-first CMS - Contentful contentful.com
- etsy/feature github.com
<blockquote>The Feature API is how we selectively enable and disable features at a very fine grain as well as enabling features for a percentage of users for operational ramp-ups and for A/B tests. A feature can be completely enabled, completely disabled, or something in between and can comprise a number of related variants.</blockquote>
- Segment.io segment.io
<blockquote>Send your data to any service with the flick of a switch.</blockquote>
- JsonStub jsonstub.com
- actionhero.js actionherojs.com
<blockquote>A multi-transport API Server with integrated cluster capabilites and delayed tasks.</blockquote>
- Publishing for Little Printer using Node.js and Heroku roylines.co.uk
- static-api npmjs.org
<blockquote>Reads a JSON file and generates a static folder structure that matches the JSON to allow data end points for simple apps without a server</blockquote>
- CloudConvert - convert anything to anything cloudconvert.org
- Ideal Postcodes ideal-postcodes.co.uk
<blockquote>A cheap, no-fuss and fast UK postcode lookup API for web and mobile developers. We license Royal Mail's Postcode Address File and make it available to developers at a fair price. One flat price of 2p per postcode lookup.</blockquote>
- Your API is not RESTful vvv.tobiassjosten.net
<blockquote>Most "RESTful APIs" make it as far as to the last point but the majority fail the hypermedia constraint. However this is so innate to the architecture that is has its own abbreviation — HATEOAS. It is also what makes RESTful design stand out and be as powerful as it is.</blockquote>
- Free email address validation API for web forms | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Some good discussion on the "why bother" aspect.
<blockquote>Once Facebook had proven that it was possible to be the one-stop-shop for your user’s every need, that became the model to emulate. Startups stopped seeing themselves as just one part of a bigger web. Now they wanted to be the only service that their users would ever need …just like Facebook.</blockquote>
I miss the old days.
- Our API docs are now hosted on Github - 37Signals 37signals.com
Looks like a good example of how to do it.
- Implementing a RESTful Web API with Python & Flask publish.luisrei.com
- Designing a RESTful Web API publish.luisrei.com
- Designing Great API Docs blog.parse.com
The most important piece of UX for a developer product isn't the homepage or the sign up process or the SDK download. It's the API documentation!
- The Little Manual of API Design [pdf] chaos.troll.no
This manual gathers together the key insights into API design that were discovered through many years of software development on the Qt appli- cation development framework at Trolltech (now part of Nokia).
- html - Get img thumbnails from Vimeo? - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
- API design for humans - (37signals) 37signals.com
- Commercial Use of your API – why you should allow it | The London Biker thelondonbiker.com
Good suggestions for API access levels.
- Google APIs & Developer Products - January 2011 code.google.com
- The Tree Slider - GitHub github.com
The new HTML5 History API (which really has nothing to do with HTML — it's a JavaScript API) allows us to manage the URL changes while CSS3 transitions handle the sliding. Permalinks are always maintained, your back button works as expected, and it's much faster than waiting for a full page load.
- Internet Video Archive internetvideoarchive.com
The entertainment industry's leading aggregator of movie and TV trailers, game previews, and music videos. With 500,000 unique video assets from over 1000 content providers, IVA has established a reputation as the archive of record for audio visual samples.
- Google’s New Places API | Think Vitamin thinkvitamin.com
Now you have a massive, global, ever-growing database of places which you can use for your web app.
- What is a Polyfill? remysharp.com
- Datasift - Tuning Your Tweets datasift.net
Gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday.
- Nick Lansley's Technology for Tesco.com Blog: Nice thought piece on APIs from Revolution magazine techfortesco.blogspot.com
Some light info about designing the Tesco groceries API.
- Factual factual.com
A platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a directory of US restaurants, a database of endocrinologists, or a list of video game cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data.
- Infochimps Data Marketplace / Commons: Download Sell or Share Databases, statistics, data sets for free infochimps.org
An open catalog and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
- Postmark – Email delivery for web apps postmarkapp.com
...helps small and large businesses delivery and track transactional emails. Stop worrying about setup, delivery, and server maintenance. We already excel at this.
- Eddy eddy.stamen.com
A media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter.