There is no recipe to build a REST api, but, there are a lot of good practices that could be followed, so, I gathered the most used and well accepted practices that you should know before building yours. Index Most commonly used HTTP methods GET POST PUT PATCH DELETE Most commonly used HTTP status Don't use verbs in the resource uri Always use JSON as the content-type Envelop your response Make client-side errors well explained in the response Support versioning, but avoid to use it Support async and callback operations…

As a developer, you are constantly resolving problems. Many of these problems probably were already solved by other developers, so, why do we need to solve them again? You have a problem, specifically a common problem, so, you try to find out if anyone already did the job solving, before you try to resolve it, right? You probably don't want to reinvent the wheel, do ya? Design patterns are there for these situations. Unfortunately there are a lot of developers who still refuse to use a few patterns, mostly because…