Stop Designing REST APIs Wrong!

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👋 Hi there, I’m Soeng Souy (StarCode Kh) 🌱 Currently creating sample projects with Laravel, React, Vue, Node, Nuxt, Python, and Livewire 👯 Looking to collaborate on open-source PHP & JavaScript projects 💬 Ask me anything about Laravel, MySQL, or Flutter ⚡ Fun fact: I love turning ☕️ into code! About This Video Stop designing REST APIs the wrong way. Too many developers build APIs that technically work… but are inconsistent, hard to scale, and painful for frontend teams to use. In this video, we break down the most common REST API design mistakes and show you how professional APIs should actually be structured. If you're building APIs with Laravel, Node.js, Express, or any backend framework — this video will completely change how you design endpoints. What you’ll learn: ✔️ Common REST API design mistakes ✔️ Why inconsistent naming breaks scalability ✔️ Proper HTTP methods usage ✔️ Correct status codes (stop returning 200 for everything!) ✔️ API versioning best practices ✔️ Clean response structure ✔️ Pagination & filtering done right ✔️ What professional APIs look like By the end, you’ll know how to design APIs that are clean, predictable, and production-ready. 👉 LIKE 👍, COMMENT 💬, and SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more backend architecture tutorials! Full Code [https://www.souysoeng.com/2026/02/stop-designing-rest-apis-wrong.html] ▸｜00:00:00｜Introduction ▸｜00:01:05｜❌ Step 1: Stop Using Verbs in URLs ▸｜00:02:40｜❌ Step 2: Stop Ignoring HTTP Status Codes ▸｜00:04:24｜❌ Step 2: Stop Ignoring HTTP Status Codes ▸｜00:05:42｜❌ Step 4: Stop Ignoring API Versioning ▸｜00:07:10｜❌ Step 5: Stop Returning Everything (No Pagination) ▸｜00:08:34｜❌ Step 6: Stop Mixing Authentication and Authorization ▸｜00:09:53｜❌ Step 7: Stop Ignoring Error Structure ▸｜00:11:20｜❌ Step 8: Stop Ignoring Filtering & Sorting Standards ▸｜00:12:42｜❌ Step 9: Stop Ignoring Security ▸｜00:14:08｜❌ Step 10: Stop Designing APIs Around Your Database ▸｜00:15:38｜✅ What Professional REST APIs Look Like ▸｜00:16:50｜🎯 Final Thoughts Follow Soeng Souy on: ► Subscribe for FREE: https://www.youtube.com/@laravelcrud ► Telegram: https://t.me/starcodekh ► Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/starcodekh ► Website: https://souysoeng.com ► Fix Code: https://fixcodekh.com ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soengsouy ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarCodeKh #RESTAPI #APIDesign #BackendDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #WebDevelopment #NodeJS #Laravel #StarCodeKh