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5 Best Practices for Designing RESTful APIs

RESTful APIs are everywhere, powering more of the modern world than any other API architecture. REST accounts for up to 80% of API saccording to this study by ProgrammableWeb. How those APIs are built and structured can make or break a company in today’s ultra-competitive world. Poorly-designed APIs can be difficult to use, can fail when they are needed most, and are valuable targets for hackers looking for sensitive data. On the other hand, a well-designed API that utilizes best practices makes development a breeze, attracts new customers, and creates confidence among users that can boost retention rates.

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Best Practices for Logging in Node.js

Logging is one of those Node.js functions that’s easy to take for granted — until some unexpected event results in hours, sometimes days, of searching through log files to pinpoint the source of a problem. Node.js apps create basic text logs just like any other application. These logs can be easily generated using open source logging libraries, such as the Winston or Bunyan libraries.

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