After REST: Trying Out GraphQL
While solving a real over-fetching problem with GraphQL, I weigh where REST is still sufficient and where GraphQL actually makes sense.
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API design, forms, authentication and the server-side features of web applications. (Page 2/4)
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API error contract: returning meaningful errors to clients
How binding API error responses to a consistent contract simplifies client development and debugging.
SPA Authentication with Laravel 7 and Sanctum
How Laravel Sanctum solves SPA authentication, and why its cookie-based approach is cleaner than token-based alternatives.
Standardizing API responses: a consistent contract
How returning the same response structure from every endpoint simplifies client code and makes errors predictable.
API versioning strategies and trade-offs
How do you evolve an API without breaking existing clients? A comparison of versioning strategies with their trade-offs, drawn from real-world experience.
Task Scheduling in Laravel
How I use Laravel's task scheduler to run many scheduled jobs from a single cron entry, keeping the scheduling logic readable and version-controlled.