While some of the tips are useful, I'd much rather see them written with JSON rather than XML. JSON has long been an industry standard. XML is bloated, almost no one uses it anymore. http://restcookbook.com/Mediatypes/json/ says "There is no predefined way to deal with link discovery in JSON". I'm surprised it doesn't even mention JSON Schema ( http://json-schema.org/ ) or JSON API ( http://jsonapi.org/ ), which are…
> which are not official standards It depends on what you mean by 'official standards.' We've registered JSON API with IANA, so it's a standard media type, but there hasn't been an RFC yet, as we're basically just finalizing the spec now. (We're in a week-long period of just textual review, conceptually and structurally, it's done.) And given that AMS is going into Rails and Ember Data will default to JSON API out of…
We're actually moving towards the JSON API ~standard~ format and hope it becomes the standard that gets widely used.