REST API Design Made Simple with Express.js
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How to design clean, predictable APIs that any developer can understand in 5 seconds. Before I understood REST, my API routes looked like this: GET /getUsers POST /createNewUser GET /fetchSingleUser?id=5 POST /deleteUser GET /updateUserName They worked. But they were inconsistent, confusing, and every route had its own naming convention. If another developer looked at my API, they'd have to read every single route to figure out what was going on. Then I learned REST — a set of p