json-api VS JSONAPI::Resources

Compare json-api vs JSONAPI::Resources and see what are their differences.

json-api

A specification for building JSON APIs (by json-api)

JSONAPI::Resources

A resource-focused Rails library for developing JSON:API compliant servers. (by cerebris)
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json-api

Posts with mentions or reviews of json-api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-22.
  • Hatchify: The Fastest Way to Build JSON: APIs
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Mar 2024
    In addition to saving you time on boilerplate, the API provided by Hatchify fully implements the JSON: API specification, which stipulates solid standards to define the peculiarities of CRUD REST APIs. Get back all the time spent bike-shedding how to implement standard API features like filtering, pagination, including related data, etc. JSON: API offers consistent practices for frontend and backend developers to agree on how resources are fetched and returned. Since Hatchify provides the core of your API for you, you can count on it’s standardized functionality to give your API a consistent start.
  • SQL as API
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2023
  • Show HN: Sunnybox – An Email API for Effortless IMAP Integration
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2023
    -JSON:API format responses (https://jsonapi.org) for better standardization.

    Built using Ruby on Rails, Sunnybox is designed to offer a powerful yet easy-to-use solution for developers managing email systems.

    I'd really appreciate your feedback on:

    - The API's user-friendliness and efficiency.

  • What if an SQL Statement Returned a Database?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/json-api/json-api/issues/795

    There is an atomic operations extension:

  • A View on Functional Software Architecture
    5 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2023
    JSON:API to format each message
  • Custom Fields: Give Your Customers the Fields They Need
    1 project | dev.to | 6 Dec 2023
    As we’re building a RESTful API that’s formatted by the JSON:API specification and store our data in a MySQL8 relational database, a few things were pretty straightforward – we need a new model and we’ll name it Custom Field (naming wasn’t an issue here 🥲).
  • How to (and how not to) design REST APIs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
    I found json api spec[1] recently. This kind of is better standard for REST APIs. It is bit rough to handle client side but once you get the hang of it, it is breeze to use

    [1] https://jsonapi.org/

  • Building a Secure RESTful API Using NestJS and Prisma With Minimum Code
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2023
    That's it! Now we have a complete set of RESTful CRUD APIs at "/api/zen" that conforms to the JSON:API specification, and the access policies fully protect the APIs. The API provides rich filtering and relation-fetching capabilities. The following are some examples; you can find more details here.
  • JSON Schema Store
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2023
    Does this have any relation to https://jsonapi.org/ ?
  • An Introduction to APIs
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023
    Basic REST and JSON RPC are very simple to start with, but have common problems when application gets bigger. How do you represent relations, pagination, filtering etc? My go-to specification for structuring JSON documents is https://jsonapi.org/ It covers most basic needs of a standard API.

JSONAPI::Resources

Posts with mentions or reviews of JSONAPI::Resources. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.
  • GraphQL or REST?
    5 projects | /r/rails | 12 Apr 2021
    REST with https://github.com/cerebris/jsonapi-resources & https://github.com/twg/devour

What are some alternatives?

When comparing json-api and JSONAPI::Resources you can also consider the following projects:

NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, ASP.NET Core and TypeScript.

Fast JSON API - No Longer Maintained - A lightning fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby Objects.

api-guidelines - Microsoft REST API Guidelines

Grape - An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.

laravel-json-api - JSON API (jsonapi.org) package for Laravel applications.

ActiveModel::Serializers - ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks

apollo - 🚀 Apollo/GraphQL integration for VueJS

jbuilder - Jbuilder: generate JSON objects with a Builder-style DSL

grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

graphql - Ruby implementation of GraphQL

grpc-swift - The Swift language implementation of gRPC.

Blueprinter - Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby