Episode 16
Webhook can't tell you nothin'
Matt, Phil, and Mike chat about naming APIs - how does "english" grammar factor in to planning the structure of an API? Our discussion is coloured -- err, colored by our own experiences... what do you think?
APIs You Won't Hate · APIs You Won't Hate
November 22, 202139m 34s
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Show Notes
- Should endpoints be named after the action, like
- /getThing
- /updateThing
- or after the resource with different HTTP verbs, like
- GET /things
- POST /things?
- What are the reasons to go with one or the other?
- Async operations with REST APIs - how do you do it?
- long callbacks, short callbacks
- polling
- pubsub
- What's the point of a Webhook?
- "Working with Webhooks" Lorna Mitchell @ PHP Barcelona 2019 link
Topics
APIsRESTsoftwareprogrammingdev