Cornice provides helpers to build & document REST-ish Web Services with Pyramid, with decent default behaviors. It takes care of following the HTTP specification in an automated way where possible.
In this post we cover best practices for writing Node.js RESTful APIs - including route naming, authentication, API testing or using proper cache headers.
An npm package to create and expose CRUD APIs in Node.js ExpressJS projects for mongoose models. Automatically creates swagger documentation for each API.
RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.
After years of dealing with REST APIs, when I first learned about GraphQL and the problems it’s attempting to solve, I could not resist tweeting the exact title of this article. Of course, back then…
Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance across the Web as a simpler alternative to SOAP- and Web Services Description Language (WSDL)-based Web services. Key evidence of this shift in interface design is the adoption of REST by mainstream Web 2.0 service providers -- including Yahoo, Google, and Facebook -- who have deprecated or passed on SOAP and WSDL-based interfaces in favor of an easier-to-use, resource-oriented model to expose their services. In this article, Alex Rodriguez introduces you to the basic principles of REST.
This dissertation introduces and elaborates the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems, describing the software engineering principles guiding REST and the interaction constraints chosen to retain those principles, while contrasting them to the constraints of other architectural styles.
The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how REST APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format.
Dan Wahlin will walk us through integrating Angular with RESTful services using RxJS and Observables. For those of you who don't know Dan - he is the founder...
XRX is a new web development architecture that is a milestone in elegant simplicity. XRX stands for:
XForms on the client
REST interfaces
and XQuery on the server
XRX is a new web development architecture that is a milestone in elegant simplicity. XRX stands for: XForms on the client REST interfaces and XQuery on the server Because XRX uses a single model for data (XML) it avoids the translation complexity of other architectures. The simplicity and elegance of XRX allows developers to focus on other value-added features of web application development and enables non-programmers to create a rich web interaction experience without the need to use procedural programming languages.
CloudKit provides RESTful JSON storage with optional OpenID and OAuth support, including OAuth Discovery. Stored entities are versioned. Services manage their own storage and do not require schema updates when models change. CloudKit is Rack middleware and as such can be used on its own or alongside other Rack-based applications or middleware components such as Rails, Merb or Sinatra. The CloudKit stack provides an optional OAuth Filter with support for OAuth Core 1.0 and OAuth Discovery. Share your APIs with other web services, desktop apps, Open Social gadgets and more. + An OpenID Filter supplies authentication for browser-based clients. Both the OAuth and OpenID Filters collaborate to simultaneously provide login screens and auth challenges in a single HTTP response. + Discoverable, schema-free, auto-versioned JSON storage tracks each version of each JSON document to allow progressive diff/merge with decentralized or occasionally connected clients.
For much of the first year or two in the life of Web services - and indeed all of their history up to that point - they were about remote procedure calls (RPC); exposing remote APIs across the Internet in order to facilitate machine-to-machine communication and ultimately, business-to-business integration over the Internet. It didn’t take very long however, for Web services proponents to realize that they needed to distance themselves from RPC and its well-deserved reputation as a poor large scale integration architectural style, due to the failure of systems such as CORBA, DCOM, and RMI to see any widespread use on the Internet. So, sometime in 2000/2001, collective wisdom in the space shifted towards a preference for “document oriented” services. Vendors quickly jumped on board with upgraded toolkits, and that was that; documents were the New Big Thing.
The Django REST interface makes it easy to offer private and public APIs for existing Django models. New generic views simplify data retrieval and modification in a resource-centric architecture and provide model data in formats such as XML, JSON and YAML with very little custom code.