RESTful Web Clients
Enabling Reuse Through Hypermedia

Powerful web-based REST and hypermedia-style APIs are becoming more common every day, but instead of applying the same techniques and patterns to hypermedia clients, many developers rely on custom client code. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how to move from one-off implementations to general-purpose client apps that are stable, flexible, and reusable.

Author Mike Amundsen provides extensive background, easy-to-follow examples, illustrative dialogues, and clear recommendations for building effective hypermedia-based client applications. Along the way, you’ll learn how to harness many of the basic principles that underpin the Web.

Chapter 1 - Our HTML Roots and Simple Web APIs
. The Task Processing System (TPS) Web App
. The Task Services Web API
. Summary
. References

Chapter 2 - JSON Clients
. The JSON Web API Client
. The JSON SPA Client
. Dealing with Change
. Coding a New Client
. Summary
. References

Chapter 3The Representor Pattern
. XML or JSON: Pick a Side!
. The Representor Pattern
. A Server-Side Model
. Summary
. References

Chapter 4 - HAL Clients
. The HAL Format
. The HAL Representor
. The HAL SPA Client
. Dealing with Change
. The HAL-FORMS Extension
. Summary
. References

Chapter 5 - The Challenge of Reusable Client Apps
. What Problem Are You Solving?
. Modeling Interaction
. A Hypermedia Interaction Loop
. Summary
. References

Chapter 6 - Siren Clients
. The Siren Format
. The Siren Representor
. The Siren SPA Client
. Dealing with Change
. The Profile Object Description (POD) Extension
. Summary
. References

Chapter 7 - Versioning and the Web
. Versioning for the Internet
. Guidelines for Non-Breaking Changes
. Summary
. References

Chapter 8 - Collection+JSON Clients
. The Collection+JSON Format
. The Collection+JSON Representor
. The Collection+JSON SPA Client
. Dealing with Change
. Extending Collection+JSON
. Summary
. References

Chapter 9 - Hypermedia and Microservices
. The Unix Philosophy
. The TPS Microservices at BigCo
. One Client to Rule Them All
. Summary
. References

Appendix: Project List
. Chapter 1, Our HTML Roots and Simple Web APIs
. Chapter 2, JSON Clients
. Chapter 3, The Representor Pattern
. Chapter 4, HAL Clients
. Chapter 5, The Challenge of Reusable Client Apps
. Chapter 6, Siren Clients
. Chapter 7, Versioning and the Web
. Chapter 8, Collection+JSON Clients
. Chapter 9, Hypermedia and Microservices

Appendix: Tools and Resources
. Hardware
. Software
. Libraries Services

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.