There are 7 third-party API integration best practices that need to be carefully executed in order to have a successful and seamless API integration. Starting with defining your requirements, know which API version you plan to use, which API functionality you need, and what API you want to expose from the integration.
The second step is understanding your API documentation. Moving on, enhance your development environment, such as the tools and libraries you’re going to use and the environment variables in which you’re going to store sensitive information. Now it’s time to implement the integration by starting with a simple request and writing code to handle API responses.
After the integration is done, carefully test the integration to make sure everything runs smoothly. Perform unit and integration testing. From now on, all you have to do is constantly monitor and maintain the API updated and error-free.
It’s very important to have documentation of your whole API integration process for future reference and maintenance.