API Blueprint – API Design Tool

API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. API Blueprint is built to encourage dialogue and collaboration between project stakeholders, developers and customers at any point in the API lifecycle. At the same time, the API Blueprint tools provide the support to achieve the goals be it API development, governance or delivery. API Blueprint is built to encourage better API designs through abstraction. The goal of API Blueprint is to decouple elements of API to enable modularity while encapsulating backend implementation behavior. Similar to tests in test-driven development, API Blueprint represents a contract for an API. Discussing your API and settling on the contract before it is developed tends to lead to better API designs. Once you have written your first API Blueprint you can discuss the API design with friends and use the tools for API Blueprint.