spring-boot-rest-api-standards

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for building RESTful APIs in Spring Boot applications with consistent design patterns, proper error handling, validation, and architectural best practices based on REST principles and Spring Boot conventions.

Spring Boot REST API standards establish consistent patterns for building production-ready REST APIs. These standards cover resource-based URL design, proper HTTP method usage, status code conventions, DTO patterns, validation, error handling, pagination, security headers, and architectural layering. Implement these patterns to ensure API consistency, maintainability, and adherence to REST principles.

Never Expose Entities Directly Use DTOs to separate API contracts from domain models. This prevents accidental exposure of internal data structures and allows API evolution without database schema changes.

Provides REST API design standards and best practices for Spring Boot projects. Use when creating or reviewing REST endpoints, DTOs, error handling, pagination, security headers, HATEOAS and architecture patterns. Source: giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit.