Developer Experience: User Experience for your Web API

Slides for a talk I gave at Web Expo Guildford covering web APIs from a native development perspective.

Transcript

1. Developer Experience
2. Why?
3. @dannygreg Who?
6. This Cloud Thing ........................................................................................ IT’S A PRETTY BIG DEAL ..............................................................
7. “Wow. What a fantastic API” - No developer ever.
8. What Happened? Guise… srsly
9. Let’s fix this I have a message from the other side… …please.
10. REST Do I need to mention this?
11. GET POST PUT DELETE
12. GET POST PUT DELETE All You Ever Need
13. JSON Another obvious one right?
14. Documentation Write it. Maintain it. Beautify it.
15. cheddarapp.com/developer
16. Community Communicate.
17. Versioning Move fast but don’t break things.
18. “Deprecate… don’t kill with fire” - @maddox
20. Easy to Play - No test account. - No production data. - No authentication. - No API keys.
21. Step Away ........................................................................................ The Libraries .............................................................. FROM THE
22. you != everyone Expose the right data. The right way.
23. Auth
24. OAuth 2.o
25. Avoid Signatures
26. Avoid Time
27. Thanks! @dannygreg Glyphs courtesy of The Noun Project