URL Design is API Design

Kyle Neath, URL Design, 2010

I think a lot about URLs, certainly more than is reasonable. Mapping URL structure to mental models — rather than the other way round — is important to me. APIs (and URLs are an API) should aim to make this natural.

Pinning this as a resource as the API surface of this site expands (see SEP 1: URL traversal/scoping/discovery).

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11:43pm on April 16, 2023 from Bristol, United Kingdom.


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