Building Hypermedia APIs with Html5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications

ISBN-13: 9781449306571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 80 str.

Mike Amundsen

Opis

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 formats
• Understand the four basic design elements for authoring hypermedia types
• Convert a simple read-only XML-based media type into a successful API design
• Examine the challenges and advantages of designing a hypermedia type with JSON
• Use HTML5 s rich set of hypermedia controls in the API design process
• Learn the details of documenting, publishing, and registering media type designs and link-relation types

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