On the Proper Care and Feeding of REST APIs - Part I

After working the full-stack for assignment 1, and purely on the frontend for assignment 3, for the final project I get the exciting task of designing and building a backend API from scratch to power the two frontends of our final project product. I’ve only ever constructed APIs twice before, and both times with toy projects that had at most one or two endpoints. This on the other hand is significantly bigger - for the first week of the project, by GitHub’s estimation, our project repository had more API documentation than code!