egze
Examples of a good API client
Looking for a API Client library that deals with calling some endpoint, parsing the data and returning structs. I want to study what are some best practices how to structure them.
What are you favourite API client projects in terms of good architecture?
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pablodavila
You could start by reading the recent discussion about HTTP clients. There’s a few options but they all have different use cases.
I’ve personally used Peppermint mainly because it seemed simple enough and built on a fast client (Mint). It seems like it’s not very popular, so you might want to keep that in mind. I can’t comment much more since my use case was very basic.
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pablodavila
Ah, I understand now. I’m sorry if I made any wrong assumptions.
I haven’t used a lot of clients but these are the ones I’ve heard good things about:
- GitHub - ex-aws/ex_aws: A flexible, easy to use set of clients AWS APIs for Elixir · GitHub
- GitHub - beam-community/stripity-stripe: An Elixir Library for Stripe · GitHub
- GitHub - parroty/extwitter: Twitter client library for elixir. · GitHub
- GitHub - prometheus-erl/prometheus.ex: Prometheus.io Elixir client · GitHub
Hope these are useful as a starting point at the very least 
egze
The motivation is to write my own library. I have written api clients before and know what goes into one, but recently was just thinking of ways how to organise such a library and looking for inspiration. So I’m looking for some open source projects where by looking at the code, I could say - wow, this library is very well written, has good separation of concerns, good testability, etc. To learn from the best 
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