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Best books to learn API design, in order

Good API design is mostly about the consumer's experience, which is invisible until you've lived with a bad one. Start with REST fundamentals and resource modeling, then work through versioning, contracts, and error handling, then the harder questions of consistency and developer experience—reading later authors who argue about style once you have your own opinions to test.

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