Every software designer agrees that design patterns, and solving familiar yet recurring design problems by implementing design patterns, are inevitable in the modern software design-and-development life cycle. In general, there are various API design patterns, and in our earlier chapter, we covered a few fundamental RESTful API patterns. We'll delve into few advanced API design patterns in this chapter, as those patterns are necessary for real-time RESTful services and what the software industry needed at this moment.
This chapter is part two of API design patterns; the intention is to cover a number of advanced design patterns, such as versioning, and backend for frontend. Once readers have gone through this chapter, they should know how to implement the following patterns:
- Versioning
- Authorization
- Uniform contract
- Entity endpoint
- Endpoint redirection
- Idempotent
- Bulk operations
- Circuit breaker
- API facade
- Backend for frontend