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5 Lightweight PHP Frameworks for REST API Development
API University

In order to develop a REST API in PHP quickly and easily it might be a good idea to use a lightweight PHP framework. Developing your own from scratch with plain PHP, apart from being a pain and taking too much time, is likely to require a lot of testing and deviate from REST standards.

On the Web

Seamus Holland

REST, API Design

08-19-2017

How to Access Any RESTful API Using the R Language
API University

R is a great language for data analytics, but it's uncommon to use it for serious development which means that popular APIs don't have SDKs for working with it. This is a how-to guide for connecting to an API to receive stock prices as a data frame when the API doesn't have a specific package for R.

How-To

Andrew Carpenter

REST

07-21-2017

How to Create a Restful API Using Node.js and MongoDB
API University

This is the second installment in a three-part MEAN Stack Tutorial series by software engineer Adrian Mejia. It explains some of the underlying concepts, such as REST APIs and the MEAN stack, and shows followers how to install everything you need to create a simple REST API on Node.js and MongoDB.

How-To

Martin W Brennan

REST, Backend

11-05-2016

How to Create a Simple REST Service Using AWS Lambda
API University

This tutorial from the FINRA Technology website explains how even novice developers can create a basic REST service for evaluating whether a number is a prime or not. The service is built using automated computing service AWS Lambda, as well as AWS API Gateway and IAM for authentication.

How-To

Martin W Brennan

REST, Application Development, Cloud

08-27-2016

How to Create a RESTful API With Authentication Using Web API and JWT
API University

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API simplifies the process of building platform-agnostic RESTful HTTP services. The service’s portability makes it a useful tool, and in this tutorial on DeveloperHandbook.com, Jon Preece shows followers how to build a RESTful API using Web API and JWT.

How-To

Martin W Brennan

REST, Authentication, Authorization

05-22-2016

How to “Separate Your API’s Concerns” With Node and Express
API University

The separation of concerns is a fundamental constraint of RESTful API design, requiring the decoupling of client and server logic. This tutorial by Dale Cox for 01.org guides followers through generating this encapsulation using Node.js with Express to build scalable and maintainable APIs.

How-To

Martin W Brennan

REST, API Design, API Education

01-02-2016

How to Build Database Driven RESTFUL API's in Python With Flask
API University

This tutorial by Leo Gonsalves on Techarena51 describes the steps necessary to build a simple database-driven RESTful JSON API with full CRUD capabilities. The tutorial is written for Python 3 using the Flask web framework, providing all of the relevant code and as well as an instruction video.

How-To

Martin W Brennan

REST, API Design, Database-as-a-Service

12-26-2015

How to Build a REST API for Your Angular App with Backand
API University Backand

The importance of providing an API for your application, irrespective of its intended use case, cannot be overstated. In this tutorial, Itay Herskovits explains the basics of RESTful architecture and how the Backand platform can be used to automatically build a REST API for an Agular application.

How-To

Martin W Brennan

REST, API Design, Application Development

12-25-2015

Hypermedia APIs: The Benefits of HATEOAS
API University

Almost 12 years ago, Roy Fielding introduced Representational State Transfer (REST) in his dissertation on Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. Since then, APIs adopting the REST architectural style (so-called "RESTful" APIs) have gradually increased in popularity. Nonetheless, a key constraint that Fielding proposed has yet to be adopted as a mainstream feature of RESTful APIs. This feature is known as Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, or HATEOAS. APIs that enforce this constraint are referred to as HATEOAS-compliant APIs. More generally, APIs that adopt the characteristics of HATEOAS are called "Hypermedia APIs."

How-To

Paul Sobocinski

REST

02-27-2014

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