Links tagged “api”

openapis.org

Home of the OpenAPI Initiative, which stewards the OpenAPI Specification, the vendor-neutral description format for HTTP APIs that grew out of Swagger.

stateless.co

Specification of HAL, a lean hypermedia media type giving JSON and XML API resources a consistent way to carry links, link relations and embedded resources.

developers.google.com

Google's reference on using OAuth 2.0 to authorise access to its APIs, with the flows for web, installed, server-side and limited-input applications.

github.com

Interactive command-line HTTP client with autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit.

martinfowler.com

Martin Fowler's write-up of Leonard Richardson's four levels of REST maturity, from plain HTTP tunnelling through resources and verbs up to hypermedia controls.

github.com

Frontend framework for building browser admin applications on top of REST services, using ES6, React and Material UI.

github.com

Open-source API gateway built on NGINX, putting routing, load balancing, authentication and a plugin system in front of microservices.

grpc.io

Home of gRPC, an open-source high-performance remote procedure call framework for connecting services across languages and environments.

github.com

JavaScript library wrapping the GitHub API for use in the browser, exposing repositories, issues and gists through both callback and promise interfaces.

flowxo.com

Flow XO, a hosted platform for wiring cloud apps into trigger-and-action workflows and for building chatbots on top of them.

python-eve.org

Eve, a Flask-based Python framework that turns a schema and a MongoDB or SQL backend into a full REST API.

expressjs.com

Minimal, unopinionated web application framework for Node.js, providing routing, middleware and HTTP helpers for building web apps and APIs.

jsonapi.org

The JSON API specification, a set of shared conventions for how JSON request and response documents are structured, so clients and servers can rely on generic tooling.

chibisov.github.io

Documentation for DRF-extensions, a collection of add-ons for Django REST Framework covering nested routers, viewset mixins, caching and bulk operations.

apiblueprint.org

API Blueprint, a markdown-like description language for web APIs, with tooling for design, prototyping and documentation.

raml.org

Directory of tools built around RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language, filterable by design, build, test, document, parser and utility.

aws.amazon.com

AWS's 2015 launch post for Amazon API Gateway, a managed front door for APIs backed by Lambda, EC2 or external services.

aws.amazon.com

AWS's 2015 general-availability post for Boto3, the Python SDK rebuilt around data-driven clients and object-oriented resource APIs.

prismic.io

Prismic, a hosted headless CMS that serves structured content to a site or app over an API.

publicapis.com

A searchable directory of public APIs for use in web and mobile applications.