Blueprinter VS Fast JSON API

Blueprinter is something we use on a project, it's also having difficulty staying alive, but right now there is active development here, a fork from the original blueprinted gem.

Beware of this

Serializer: procore/blueprinter: Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby

Today I thought I'd run through a few of the powerful things that the ActiveModel::Serializer gem brings to the table when used in a Ruby on Rails application. Sure, there are faster alternatives, but AMS is the first one I learned how to use, and thus it holds a special place in my heart. Quick question before we dive too much deeper, though...

Blueprint

Just an FYI: While I agree that the blueprinter gem is awesome, there are currently no active maintainers: https://github.com/procore/blueprinter/issues/288

In a happy coincidence, we're knee-deep in the middle of a migration of our serialisers to use Blueprinter instead of AMS. One benefit, in this case, is that it lets you explicitly set what generator you're using, like so:

What made me think about this is that I'm using (maybe in the wrong way) some gems like Blueprinter and Amoeba.

I've been using Blueprinter so far, and it has been working great, but I'd like to ditch it if I can.

We use it extensively for one project. The only annoying bit involves defining the response json-schema. Luckily we are using a gem called blueprinter for JSON serialization, so we added a bunch of overrides that store metadata, so we can generate the json-schema with meta programming. You might need to find a library that would help you write the schemas fluently [1] / [2] to make it easier to define them.

NASA uses Ruby on Rails ... Netflix originally had one of the best JSON API serializers (before changing maintainers).

There is a to_json method and recent benchmarks I found are placing a few ms above fast_jsonapi (which is no longer maintained) and slightly faster that jsonapi-serializer (which is supposed to replace fast_jsonapi according to their website).

Netflix has definitively had some Ruby in the past as they have the (now unmaintained) https://github.com/Netflix/fast_jsonapi All their ruby repos seem to be abandoned though, so assume there's not much going on there with Ruby currently.

Last week, I covered tricks and tips with handling forms and updating state, as well as sending the data through fetch requests to the backend. Since then, I have been working endlessly on fetching data from the backend, which included building relationships between my various models and sending the data through a Json Serializer made by Netflix, Fast_JSONAPI Serializer (now just JSONAPI Serializer). I learned some new things while working with the serializer and felt I could impart my wisdom this week.

After googling and reading some articles, I found that there are a lot of blogs related to Fast JSON API which is now deprecated and kind of replaced by JSON:API Serializer. These gems are following JSON:API specification and force our API response to meet this specification standard.