RESTful Web Clients

Prologue: Well, That Was a Fun Trip, Eh?

“Experience is the best way to learn.”

Shannon Kaiser, “50 Things My Future Self Wants Me To Know”

Bob and Carol

“OK, Bob. I think that wraps it up, right?”

“Right, Carol. Amazing how much we’ve covered in the twelve weeks since we took on our new roles here at BigCo.”

“Yep. I was skeptical when I agreed to pass you my seasoned server-side team and start out the new client-side development group. But it has been quite an enjoyable experience.”

“It has been interesting. I learned quite a bit converting your initial HTML-only backend to a web API service. And I learned more as I watched you and your team first build the basic JSON-object client and then the HAL, Collection+JSON, and Siren hypermedia apps—and all in the last month or so.”

“Well, we both learned quite a bit in a short time. Your research into the representor implementation and the API versioning stuff was great.”

“As was your work on human–computer interaction ...