Summary

I wanted this entire chapter to work as a review and summary. Learning new things takes some time and looking at things from a few different angles can help to make the learning stick in the long term. I have taken you through worked examples of many of the concepts that I've covered in this book to help you get a solid understanding of them.

We've covered how to design an API, including how to think about and approach defining the actions and endpoints that an API should have. We also looked at how to think about the kind of inputs that the API might take.

After that, we looked at taking our design thoughts and codifying them into an OpenAPI specification file. In doing this, we went over some material that had already been covered in previous chapters, but we also learned about some additional advanced features of this specification, including things such as how to link together outputs from one part of the API that serve as inputs to other parts of the...