--- title: API Design 101: From Basics to Best Practices | daily.dev description: This post provides an in-depth explanation of API design, focusing on the basics and best practices. It covers topics such as CRUD operations, communication... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/oytdc9u31 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: API Design 101: From Basics to Best Practices | daily.dev og:description: This post provides an in-depth explanation of API design, focusing on the basics and best practices. It covers topics such as CRUD operations, communication... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/oytdc9u31 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oYTdC9u31.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # API Design 101: From Basics to Best Practices **[WebCraft](https://daily.dev/sources/webcraft)** · [@mouad_dadda](https://daily.dev/mouad_dadda) · 1093 upvotes · 13 comments ## Summary This post provides an in-depth explanation of API design, focusing on the basics and best practices. It covers topics such as CRUD operations, communication protocols, REST, GraphQL, and more. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@gerryhaus** · 10 upvotes > I wish the people at Google Android would learn how to design an API. Just checkout their documentation to receive GPS, and to receive GPS while an app is in the background (what they call foreground). The concept is extremely simple, it's a few numbers for f's sacks. Their design is so insanely low level, you have to implement literally many dozens if not hundreds of lines of code with many classes and declarations. Completely absurd. But it gets worse: because it is so low level, it is constantly changing and so is *your* code. All anyone needs is a high level interface, it should not... **@jrjaro18** · 5 upvotes > better for newbies **@soorajchahar** · 0 upvotes > Good for beginners ⚡ **@kadrifatteh** · 0 upvotes > Best documentation for better create API **@anilkumarbehera** · 0 upvotes > good for beginners! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#graphql](https://daily.dev/tags/graphql), [#rest-api](https://daily.dev/tags/rest-api) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/oytdc9u31) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/oytdc9u31","headline":"API Design 101: From Basics to Best Practices","text":"Shared: API Design 101: From Basics to Best Practices","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/oytdc9u31","datePublished":"2024-12-03T09:08:45.668Z","dateModified":"2024-12-03T09:08:45.672Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Mouad Dadda","url":"https://daily.dev/mouad_dadda","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--qvecFxpC--/f_auto/v1746013117/avatars/avatar_cmPs2DO0hyj5zVizDLJDZ","description":"🚀 Full Stack Developer💡 Passionate about contributing to open-source projects .","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":22730}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1093},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":13}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/gYbJn53Cd"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I wish the people at Google Android would learn how to design an API. 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Morons!","datePublished":"2024-12-06T23:54:37.425Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/oYTdC9u31#c-vXhqUswga","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gerry","url":"https://daily.dev/gerryhaus","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--Zq08ufWD--/f_auto/v1745783913/avatars/avatar_xLIbosP0lNB6caVBOBujb"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":10}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"better for newbies","datePublished":"2024-12-06T18:18:44.964Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/oYTdC9u31#c-UXSnKxf2P","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rohan Jaiswal","url":"https://daily.dev/jrjaro18","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--GnvsE0VT--/f_auto/v1734691374/avatars/avatar_Db7FZ8ezT21BMrvqvwcjo"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Good for beginners ⚡","datePublished":"2024-12-13T01:11:04.726Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/oYTdC9u31#c-fpDIVmUj3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Suraj Chahar","url":"https://daily.dev/soorajchahar","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--gRnG8ffK--/f_auto/v1731335059/avatars/avatar_MjDQZgmlhl3HHF9xRXWdV"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Best documentation for better create API","datePublished":"2024-12-07T16:14:30.883Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/oYTdC9u31#c-fyW7L6MBD","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"kadri fatteh","url":"https://daily.dev/kadrifatteh","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJ3SKCpipjPj3GsPKZkNMmH9CHMRiEAvIxIRFKZRvi2b0bUOQGJ=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"good for beginners!","datePublished":"2024-12-27T06:08:13.381Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/oYTdC9u31#c-mzhxikJOZ","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Anil Kumar Behera","url":"https://daily.dev/anilkumarbehera","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJVKujY7uEndTVqIASe4eh5cACatn30mZE_2qiEoV_5mwjJPu4=s96-c"}}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/webcraft","name":"WebCraft"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"WebCraft","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/webcraft"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"API Design 101: From Basics to Best Practices"}]} ```