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Problem Details for Better REST HTTP API Errors

How do you tell your API Consumers explicitly if there are errors or problems with their request? Everyone creating HTTP APIs seems to implement error responses differently. Wouldn’t it be great if HTTP API Errors had a standard? Well, there is! It’s called Problem Details (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807) YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. If you’re creating a RESTful HTTP API, Status Codes can be a good way to indicate to the client if a request was successful or not. The most common… Read More »Problem Details for Better REST HTTP API Errors

Smarter Single Page Application with a REST API

How can you build a smarter Single Page Application with a REST API? The concepts have been since the beginning of the web, yet have somehow lost their way in modern REST API that drives a Single Page Application or Mobile Applications. Here’s how to guide clients based on state by moving more information from design time to runtime. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. State If you’re developing more than a CRUD application, you’re likely going to be driven by… Read More »Smarter Single Page Application with a REST API

Is a REST API with CQRS Possible?

If you’re developing an HTTP API (what most would call REST) how does that fit alongside a Task-Based UI and CQRS? How can you create a REST API with CQRS? For starters, resources don’t need to map to Entities. Second, HTTP Methods don’t need to map to CRUD. Resources can be whatever you want them to be. In which case, they can be commands and queries. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Resources In some of my recent videos/blogs about Task… Read More »Is a REST API with CQRS Possible?