RESTful API lifecycle

There are 4 main stages of a RESTful API development lifecycle

The 4 stages of a RESTful API development cycle are:
  • API Requirement Definition
  • API Modeling
  • Generation of API Specifications and Code
  • Implementation and Management of the API
The four stages of the RESTful API development lifecycle.

API Requirement Definition

When developing a RESTful API for a particular business requirement, the enterprise defines the requirement based on what data they want to expose from the business. The data to be exposed determines the scope of what the user of the eventual API will be able to do to retrieve and manipulate the enterprise's data.