Be a user of your own API

Question

Be a user of your own API

konklone opened this issue 11 years ago · 3 comments

A strong recommendation that API producers should, if at all possible, have an in-house product that is itself a client of the API. "Dogfooding" may be a cliche, but it's an important grounding effect, and keeps the API design from veering off into theory and premature optimization.

Answer 1 · 2014-05-27T16:31:00.000Z

Does writing a client lib against your own API count?

Answer 2 · 2014-05-27T20:53:01.000Z

No, not really.

Answer 3 · 2014-05-27T22:57:59.000Z

Agreed. The importance is to have it be something that your own team relies on. A client library is more along the lines of what the team is still offering out to the community.