Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the same traction as Rails?

Posted by thomasfromcdnjs on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @08:31AM
from the ask-hn dept.

For those of you who have used Rails, it does a pretty good job of exercising best practises at your finger tips. Over the years I have been waiting for a dominant winner in the API space.

I know of many attempts from across many different languages but none seem to cater for A->B development when taking into account versioning, rate-limiting and other API centric ideas.

In my mind, problems like the lack of consensus on how to even semantically create resource/routes have delayed the process.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by 55555 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:21PM (#10462341)

Flask for python. It's so bare-bones that it's great for API's even though it's mostly used for full sites/apps.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by siquick on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:31PM (#10462716)

Flask is brilliant for building small apps/services.

It makes setting up a new Django project feel like a complete PITA.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by tmlee on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:13PM (#10458961)

Grape by Intridea https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape is a nifty choice. It is somewhat opinionated, but lightweight enough to have most of the features you'll need in writing an API

Docs over at http://intridea.github.io/grape/

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by hackerboos on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:13AM (#10464533)

Grape + ROAR + Swagger is a good combo.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by codegeek on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:27AM (#10458171)

Take a look at Laravel in PHP and also Lumen. I have been working with it for API work for past 2-3 months and I am amazed at how good this framework has been. yes it is PHP but Laravel has redefined the php framework space.

If you like Python, then Flask framework is the way to go. Another great framework that I have worked with and love.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by __glibc_malloc on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:43AM (#10471908)

The Laravel documentation is an example of the worst documentation ever. It reminds me of the Fox News channel. I can't recommend using it on anything serious.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by lgas on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:20AM (#10458523)

They don't have the level of adoption but if your concern is automating best practices then you may be interested in Webmachine[0] (Erlang) or one of it's descendants like Liberator[1] (Clojure).

[0]: https://github.com/Webmachine/webmachine

[1]: https://github.com/clojure-liberator/liberator

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by jstoiko on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:09AM (#10457718)

Ramses is trying to solve that by using a RAML file as source of truth. Regardless of the level of restfulness of your API, what you spec is what you get. Well, that's the ultimate goal, right now it has limitations and opinions but we're trying to solve them. I'm a core dev btw.

http://ramses.tech https://ramses.readthedocs.org

Let me know you thoughts!

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by jon-wood on Thursday October 29, 2015 @10:48AM (#10471384)

Its still early days for me, but I'm really enjoying working with Pliny[0], which is a Ruby based framework that came out of Heroku's experience building APIs. It makes the very good move of just being an opinionated Sinatra stack, and a set of patterns for things like API representations.

[0] https://github.com/interagent/pliny

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by deviloflaplace on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:27PM (#10465918)

Not a framework but we're working on something called APIPlug (http://apiplug.com) that will enable you to get source code in your desired language. We support versioning and working on oAuth and rate limiting right now. Drop us a message if we can add some feature that will make your life easier.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by gt565k on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:47PM (#10462749)

Django rest framework

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by romanovcode on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:02AM (#10463265)

WebApi2? It's pretty good. Also, MVC6 (it bundles WebApi2 inside of it, soon to be RC1)

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by twunde on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:30AM (#10458188)

I don't think I've seen anything that has the same traction as rails, but strongloop's loopback framework for nodejs was pretty good for best practices (I think their enterprise version has some api extras as well)

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by MalcolmDiggs on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:47AM (#10458753)

Restify is pretty popular (for node.js), slim (for php), or Sinatra (for ruby) but I think a lot of developers just don't need much from an API framework, so they pick the most minimal framework available, or none at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by kat on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @07:40PM (#10461980)

What about Grails? Its the Groovy(ie Java) version of Rails. I think its gaining traction in enterprise software shops. https://grails.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by joshavant on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:19PM (#10459022)

Cocoa and Foundation run nearly all Apple technologies and are pretty replete in their capabilities.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the sa... by Irishsteve on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:22PM (#10461248)

flask

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