TechradarDev/radar/2022-03-28/api-first-design-approach.md

title, ring, quadrant, tags

title	ring	quadrant	tags
API-First Design Approach	adopt	methods-and-patterns	architecture

The API of any software we develop shapes in which way developers, teams, customers and users interact with our software. No matter if a Frontend-API like GraphQL, a rpc-API like gRPC or an internal API published by a module in a larger project or shared library, messing the API up always creates headaches and is hard to correct. If we stick to semantic versioning, it's actually pretty impossible to change a once-published API without breaking consumers. By todays standards we priorize API design before actual development, to be clear on how our software interacts, and thus move this pattern to "adopt".