Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications
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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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An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen travels throughout the United States and Europe consulting and speaking on a wide range of topics including distributed network architecture, Web application development, Cloud computing, and other subjects. His recent work focuses on the role hypermedia plays in creating and maintaining applications that can successfully evolve over time. He has more than a dozen books to his credit and recently contributed to the book "RESTful Web Services Cookbook" (by Subbu Allamaraju). When he is not working, Mike enjoys spending time with his family in Kentucky, USA.
