Backend API Starter Guide

Key concepts and references for building RESTful APIs in common stacks.

RESTful API

• Understand HTTP and REST design
• References:
  • Ruanyifeng: Understanding RESTful Architecture
  • Ruanyifeng: RESTful API Design Guide
  • RESTful API resources collection

Dependency Injection (DI)

• Intro to DI and software architecture patterns

Java

• JDK 1.8+
• IDE: IntelliJ IDEA
• DB: MySQL 5.7+, cache: Redis
• Data layer: MyBatis (or JPA), build: Maven/Gradle
• Framework: Spring Boot + Spring MVC
• Goal: build CRUD Web APIs with Spring Boot

C# (.NET)

• .NET: .NET Core 2.x
• IDE: VS Code + SDK (or Visual Studio)
• DB: MySQL 5.7+, cache: Redis
• Data layer: Dapper
• Framework: ASP.NET Core MVC with built‑in DI
• Goal: build CRUD Web APIs with ASP.NET Core

Python

• Python 3.6+
• IDE: VS Code (+ Python extension) or PyCharm
• DB: MySQL 5.7+, cache: Redis
• ORM: SQLAlchemy
• Framework: Flask
• Goal: build CRUD Web APIs with Flask

PHP

• PHP 7.1+
• IDE: VS Code (+ PHP Debug) + nginx + php‑fpm
• DB: MySQL 5.7+, cache: Redis
• Framework: Laravel; build: Composer
• Goal: build CRUD Web APIs with Laravel

Node.js

• Node.js 9+
• IDE: VS Code
• DB: MySQL 5.7+, cache: Redis
• ORM: Sequelize (or orm2)
• Build: npm
• Framework: Express
• Goal: build CRUD Web APIs with Express