What’s your favorite way to make a web API? Give us an outline:

• Programming Language
• Framework
• Scheme/spec/standard
• Documentation
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Client libraries?

Here’s my example:

• Python
• Flask
• OpenAPI REST (I use Flask-RESTPlus)
• Swagger UI
• JWT (Bearer token) with Flask-Login
• Resource-based policies with Flask-Pundit
• Swagger codegen

There are a lot of decisions to make when creating an API, and a lot of problems that don’t seem to have a standard solution. So what’s yours?