Hypermedia APIs about api-standards

[mahmoudimus]

JSONAPI pretty much cover most of this specification. Have you take a look at it?

[konklone]

I've seen it, though it doesn't seem that recently updated, or commonly used. I think Hypermedia (like REST) is more of an approach than a specific standard.

[pmackay]

Would be interested to know if this picture at 18F has evolved around use of hypermedia APIs?

Also has anyone looked at http://www.hydra-cg.com/ ?

[bengm]

This may be a broader issue, but I think there's a place for this repo to have a more opinionated preference on specific API standards. (It is called "API Standards" after all, not 'guidance' or 'principles'.) IMHO, the right balance could be having a spec and reference implementation(s), perhaps starting with JSONAPI.

The idea would not be a mandate to all, but rather a more concrete starting point to address: "I'm going to build an API for an agency. I don't have a particularly unique need or strong opinion. Just give me a straightforward starting point." Perhaps the answer is to use the JSONAPI spec, and for gov APIs include at least these meta data fields, perhaps aligned with common core metadata.