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Best Practices for REST API Error Handling

It is highly desirable in APIs to properly handle errors and provide meaningful error messages, as it can help the API client respond to issues correctly. The default behavior tends to return stack traces that are hard to understand and ultimately useless for the API client. Splitting error information into fields also allows the API client to parse it and provide better error messages to the…
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Building a REST API with Node and Express

Imagine you already have a working site. Let’s say your site starts to become more popular over time. If you build your site without thinking it will be popular later on, you will start to respond more slowly to requests. Active users will wait for you to reply to the…
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HTTP Status Codes for REST API

Worse than encountering an error is encountering an “unspecified” error. If you don’t want your REST API to give users a hard time, explain the errors and their reasons clearly. Do not forget to use HTTP status codes while doing this. Standard HTTP status codes will suffice for a general description of almost any error. HTTP status codes (HTTP response codes) are the codes…
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Basics of API Testing Using Postman

API is the interface that enables the application’s functions to be accessed and used externally or remotely. We can also say that an API is a software tool that allows two applications to communicate with each other. API allows any server to return a response and…
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How to Get Started with GraphQL and Node.js

Today, most of the applications that serve the open world such as the Web and mobile use web services. A web service written on the backend of applications simultaneously supports the application’s frontend, mobile applications, and even IoT devices if any. This…
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Best practices for REST API security

Rest APIs are frequently preferred in today’s web technologies. As such, Rest API security means protecting the integrity of both the APIs you own and use. The Internet is a network where information exchange takes place very quickly and access to information is very easy. According to the Digital 2021: Global Overview Report, published by Datareportal in partnership with We Are Social and…
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What is a Restful API?

With the development of technology, the work that users can do through platforms and applications has increased or has become easier. So what gives us this convenience and allows us to do many things without the need for developers? Let’s examine Restful API…
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When is the right time to upgrade from a free API plan to a paid API plan?

Many software company owners don’t program themselves; quite often they can just be individual start-up owners with great ideas for software, who get freelance software programmers to research and try out different APIs for their solution. Sometimes the relationship between the software company owner and the software programmer is a new one, the company owner may be reluctant to providing…
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