reusable libraries for hypermedia clients: mike amundsen fluent conference speaking session

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Reusable Libraries for Hypermedia Clients

Mike Amundsen,Director of ArchitectureCA / Layer 7 Technologies@mamund

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Mike Amundsen

Author, Web Architect, Presenter

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node, 2011

RESTful Web APIs (w/ Leonard Richardson), 2013

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Reusable

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Reusable Data Models are Hard

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Reusable UIs are Hard

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Reusable

What’s left to re-use?

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Reusable Middleware

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Reusable Middleware on the Server

Apache/IIS/nodejs

Business Components

Web Services

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Reusable Middleware on the Server

Most server middleware is focused on “handling data requests”

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Reusable Middleware on the Client

JQuery

Bootstrap

Emberjs

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Reusable Middleware on the Client

Most client middleware is focused on “handling user requests”

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Reusable Middleware on ….

We need middleware focused on “network requests”

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Network Requests

The data

The actions

The message

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Reusable Middleware for the Network

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Reusable Middleware for the Network

Let’s build some reusable middleware for the network.

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Reusable Middleware for the Network

Let’s build a hypermedia library.

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Hypermedia Clients

Hypermedia clients are different…

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Hypermedia Clients are Different

Don’t code the problem, code the message

Don’t memorize details at build time

Recognize them at run time

Design to react, not dictate

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Process Steps

Select a media type (Collection+JSON)

Create the library (client-side JS)

Build a Client app (Cj Explorer)

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Select a Media Type

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Create the library

Learn about RFC2119 words

Implement all the MUSTS

Implement as many SHOULDs as you can

Implement the MAYs, if you are able

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Hypermedia Libraries

Let’s look at the code…

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Maintaining Hypermedia Libraries

Similar to SDKs

Language Support

Stay in tune w/ the spec

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Reusable Libraries for Hypermedia Clients

Lots of media types to support

- HAL

- Cj

- Siren

- JASON-API

- Mason

- UBER

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Reusable Libraries for Hypermedia Clients

Reusability at the network level

Spec-reading skills

Similar to SDKs

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Reusable Middleware for the Network

Let’s build hypermedia libraries!

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Reusable Libraries for Hypermedia Clients

Mike Amundsen,Director of ArchitectureCA / Layer 7 Technologies@mamund