12. WHAT IS THE HYPERMEDIA CONSTRAINT?
You do stuff by reading pages
and then either
follow links or submit forms.
— Jon Moore
13. USE HTML FOR HYPERMEDIA APIS
Lots of hypermedia controls
Old, standardized, everybody knows HTML
Good tooling support
https://vimeo.com/20781278
http://codeartisan.blogspot.se/2012/07/using-html-as-media-type-for-your-api.html
http://amundsen.com/hypermedia/html/
34. FURTHER EXPLORATION, BOOKS
Mike Amundsen , Building Hypermedia APIs
with HTML5 and Node
Steve Klabnik , Designing Hypermedia APIs
Aaron Gustafson , Adaptive Web Design
35. FURTHER EXPLORATION, ONLINE
Brad Frost , Beyond Media Queries:
Anatomy of an Adaptive Web Design
Nicolas Zakas , Progressive Enhancement 2.0
Stefan Tilkov (et al), Resource-oriented Client Architecture
36. THANK YOU!
Gustaf Nilsson Kotte / @gustaf_nk
Code: https://github.com/gustafnk/kanban-awd-api
Demo: http://kanban-awd.herokuapp.com/ and http://kanban-api.herokuapp.com
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/GustafKotte/html-hypermedia-apis-and-adaptive-web-design-j