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Sharad Raj (He/Him)
Sharad Raj (He/Him)

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How do you approach REST API dev ๐Ÿ˜„

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Brandin Chiu

If you're starting from scratch and have limited logical requirements and are instead mostly just serving data, working from a standard like graphql or openapi is a really quick way to get bootstrapped efficiently.

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Any openapi boilerplate you know ?

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Brandin Chiu

Openapi code generators exist for almost every major language! :)

github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-ge...

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James Robb

I wrote a mini series on just that using PHP for the example implementation: dev.to/jamesrweb/programmatically-...