Spring Boot Rest Api Standards

Opinionated REST API standards for Spring Boot that'll keep your endpoints consistent. Covers the fundamentals you need: resource-based URL design, proper HTTP method usage, DTO patterns with validation, global exception handling with RestControllerAdvice, and pagination setup. The examples are practical, showing complete CRUD controllers and error response structures you can actually use. The validation checkpoints are a nice touch, making sure you verify URL structure and status codes as you build. It's prescriptive about things like never exposing entities directly and always paginating large results, which is exactly what you want from a standards guide. If you're building APIs in Spring Boot and want to avoid the usual REST antipatterns, this gives you a solid foundation without overthinking it.