Build The API First

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Argues for starting with a standardized server first and shows a practical stack to do it concretely using Rails API to produce a lighter faster app plus ActiveModel Serializers that emit the JSON API shape so clients get predictable payloads. Recommends Apiary for synced examples docs, insists on versioning and deprecation planning, and reports that following these conventions removes ad hoc JSON hacks and makes multiple native and JS clients work with minimal duplication.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:48Presentation Overview
3. 2:43Design Patterns
4. 3:59Fowler and Alexander
5. 5:11Learning Rails
6. 6:04APIs
7. 7:21Building API
8. 8:27API as infrastructure
9. 9:46Why the API
10. 12:10Best Practices
11. 13:45Documentation
12. 14:32APIary
13. 16:01API as rescue dog
14. 16:47JSON API
15. 17:44Conventions
16. 18:48Rails API
17. 19:31Rails Stack
18. 20:44Serializers
19. 22:12Plan accordingly

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