: Provide enough info for a developer to fix the issue without leaking sensitive system details (like stack traces). 4. Rate Limiting & Throttling
Protect your system from being overwhelmed by too many requests, whether intentional (DDoS) or accidental (loops in client code). API CheatSquad
: Return a 429 Too Many Requests status to tell the client to slow down. 5. Clear Documentation & Versioning : Provide enough info for a developer to
: Use Swagger/OpenAPI to generate interactive documentation. and formats (e.g.
: Use industry standards like OAuth 2.0 or JWT (JSON Web Tokens) .
: Use tools like Joi or Zod to enforce data types, lengths, and formats (e.g., ensuring an email is actually an email).
