Ask HN: What are your favorite APIs you have worked with this year?

2 pointswufufufu1y ago4 comments

What APIs left an impression on you and why? Were they particularly well-designed, intuitive, or well-supported?

What designs or features of this API would you like to see be more common in APIs being built or refactored?

4 comments

The community forum is fast at picking up issues

https://www.ig.com/uk/trading-platforms/trading-apis/how-to-...

It's been a couple of years but I enjoyed that part of Postmarkapp's onboard included "and now do an API request". Not sure if they wanted to make sure that I'm technical able to do it or show off how easy it is.

taf21y ago

Browser APIs are actually pretty great. From good old DOM API like querySelector to BroadcastChannel and even navigator.locks - all super useful and there’s more…

tobinfekkes1y ago

Workwave: great API!

Hubspot: raging dumpster fire API!

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