Building Hypermedia APIs with Html5 and Node

by Mike Amundsen

With this concise book, you ll learn the art of building hypermedia APIs that don t simply run "on" the Web, but that actually exist "in" the Web. You ll start with the general principles and technologies behind this architectural approach, and then dive hands-on into three fully-functional API examples.Too many APIs rely on concepts rooted in desktop and local area network patterns that don t scale well costly solutions that are difficult to maintain over time. This book shows system architects and web developers how to design and implement human- and machine-readable web services that remain stable and flexible as they scale.Learn the H-Factors for representing application metadata across all media types and formatsUnderstand the four basic design elements for authoring hypermedia typesConvert a simple read-only XML-based media type into a successful API designExamine the challenges and advantages of designing a hypermedia type with JSONUse HTML5 s rich set of hypermedia controls in the API design processLearn the details of documenting, publishing, and registering media type designs and link-relation types"

185 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2011