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Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications 1st Edition

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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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  5. Publication date
    January 3, 2012
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    English
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    7 x 0.51 x 9.19 inches
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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (January 3, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449306578
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449306571
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.51 x 9.19 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and intersection of technology and society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities APIs and Microservices present for both consumers and the enterprise.

Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers. He contributed to the O'Reilly Media book, "Continuous API Management" (2018). His "RESTful Web Clients", was published by O'Reilly in February 2017 and he co-authored "Microservice Architecture" (June 2016). Amundsen's 2013 collaboration with Leonard Richardson "RESTful Web APIs" and his 2011 book, “Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node”, are common references for building adaptable Web applications. His latest book "Design and Build Great APIs" for Pragmatic Publishing is scheduled for release in early 2020.

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matv
4.0 out of 5 stars Overall it's a great book
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2013
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It's a great intro to hypermedia and if you work with web services of any kind, any technology it's the kind of book that helps expanding your horizons and suggesting different approaches to common problems. I don't think the title was a great choice. "Why web services often fail and what we can do about it" could have worked better :) Or maybe "The Woodstock of web services" :) Anyways, the only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that I'm not entirely convinced of the practicality of some of those concepts. But that's absolutely nothing against the author nor the book, it's just that hypermedia services are so different than traditional web services that you have to question a few things before start making design changes here and there. Definitely a book worth reading.
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Ryan Riley
5.0 out of 5 stars Pragmatic Tutorial on Designing and Building Hypermedia APIs
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2012
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If you don't know what a hypermedia API is, think that REST is all about pretty URIs, or think RPC is all the rage, you owe it to yourself to amend your thinking by picking up this book. I don't think this will convince you to go all out for hypermedia, but you'll get a solid, clear foundation for how hypermedia can help you better design and implement web APIs. This book covers the case for both human and machine clients. In particular, I found the use of HTML5 a real treat, as I'd never considered it for machine-to-machine communications. I highly recommend it.
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IntelXDesign
2.0 out of 5 stars Great example, but lacking high-level concepts/motivation.
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2017
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Had a few really good examples, but for the most part examples repeated themselves. I thought overall the book was lacking in high-level content for those unfamiliar with hypermedia design.
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Scott Radcliff
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice intro to hypermedia apis
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2012
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This is a good intro to building hypermedia apis. It definitely gives you the information that you need to start reviewing if hypermedia apis are right for you. Don't let the HTML5 and Node thing throw you, the information really does apply to whatever language you are working with.
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Naresh Chintalcheru
4.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2013
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Andrew Turner
5.0 out of 5 stars great book due to deep insights
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2013
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Mike Amundsen displays a deep knowledge of the reasoning behind his recommendations and explains things in a way that allows one to build with the great ideas that he continually displays throughout the text.
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Alviset Christophe
4.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely excellent, but to me it was difficult to assess ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2016
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Absolutely excellent, but to me it was difficult to assess if the recommended practices are actually in wide use or not
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Norman Richards
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical hypermedia API example
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2012
As REST discussion has matured into a focus on hypermedia APIs, it's easy to get lost amidst all the ideas. Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node grounds the discussion by providing a few practical examples that can be absorbed and understood. Instead of saying "a hypermedia API could work like ..." this book simply creates a few APIs and implements client and server functionality on them. It's not an exhaustive discussion of ideals, it's something you can take and immediately apply. If you are wondering "Ok, I get it, but how would it actually work in practice" then this book is for you.

Note - although the examples in the book are implemented in nodejs, it is clearly not a book about nodejs. The language and tools are implementation details. You could easily implement these APIs in any language.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2013
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Perfect price for a book that costs a lot more in the shops. Great for my brother who needed it for his studies.
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