4 posts tagged with "backend"

Your API is only as useful as its documentation. Without clear docs, developers waste hours reverse-engineering endpoints, partners struggle to integrate, and AI agents can't understand your API at all.

But writing OpenAPI specs by hand? That's tedious, error-prone, and constantly out of sync with your actual code.

What if your documentation wrote itself?

With the latest codehooks-js update, it does. Define your schemas once, and Codehooks generates complete OpenAPI 3.0 documentation—served as an interactive Swagger UI at /docs.

Most AI projects don't need a fleet of orchestration tools to run a few prompt chains. The real work is state management, retries, scheduling, and simple persistence—the operational glue between LLM API calls.

This post shows you how to build a production-ready text summarization workflow using Codehooks.io, the Workflow API, and OpenAI. You'll learn:

• OpenAI API integration patterns: Error handling, retries, rate limiting, and cost optimization
• Workflow state management: Building reliable multi-step processes with caching and persistence
• Webhook triggers: Event-driven workflows that respond to GitHub issues (and other external services)
• Programmatic access: How to trigger and manage workflows via REST API, CLI, and webhooks

By the end, you'll have a working summarizer that caches results, stores them in a NoSQL database, and can be triggered via REST API or GitHub webhooks—all deployed with a single command.

Here's the workflow we'll build:

An API is an interface that lets software communicate by defining how to make requests and receive responses. A REST API is a specific kind of API that follows REST principles over HTTP—using methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to work with resources. All REST APIs are APIs, but not all APIs are REST.

Confused? Don't worry. In this post, you'll learn everything about the API and REST API domain—from core concepts and key differences to how REST+JSON became the web's standard. We'll explore why REST APIs dominate today's development landscape, compare different backend service models, and finally show you how to build your own APIs in practice using Codehooks.io.

APIs and webhooks are essential for connecting different systems and creating smooth user experiences. Whether you're pulling data from external services or receiving real-time events, API integration is at the heart of modern application development.

This tutorial walks you through the entire process—from understanding what API integration means to building robust integrations. You'll learn the tools, step-by-step process, and best practices that make integration work.