Building efficient, reliable, and secure REST APIs involves following several best practices. Here's a detailed breakdown of these practices, including versioning, security, and optimization techniques for your NestJS-based microservice:
- Resource Naming: Use meaningful, clear, and consistent names for your endpoints (e.g.,
/movies
,/movies/{id}
). Prefer nouns for resources and use HTTP methods to represent actions (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE). - HTTP Methods:
GET
for reading data.POST
for creating resources.PUT
orPATCH
for updating resources.DELETE
for removing resources.
- Use HTTP Status Codes: Return appropriate status codes (e.g.,
200
for success,201
for created,404
for not found,400
for bad request,500
for server errors).