How To Deprecate APIs The Right Way

The only certainty in software development is that requirements change. How many times has this happened to you? You start a project, develop an app to satisfy the requirements, release it, and everyone is happy. The product manager comes back and asks to add a new feature. Suddenly, you have to pass an extra parameter or change the name of a property. You make the change, and other parts of the app start erroring, even parts handled by other teams. Whether you are working on a library, a framework, or even just a module of an app, you need to be considerate of all of its possible consumers. If you introduce a breaking change, you must give your users the time and tools to adjust their code. Today, I want to explore what is a breaking change, what kind of changes can be considered breaking, and what techniques can be used to propagate those changes safely. <h1>What Is a Breaking Change?</h1> A breaking change is a change in the code that requires other parts of the code to change to keep the system working. The simplest example is when you change the name of a property in a public API: every other component that uses that property has to update the name to the new one. <a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-deprecate-apis-the-right-way-371c1cbf1723">Click Here</a>