Praise for RESTful Web Clients

“An accessible, sensible book on the importance of hypermedia APIs that anyone working with APIs should read, whether you are a business stakeholder all the way up to an existing hypermedia skeptic—a must read.”

Kin Lane, The API Evangelist

"RESTful Web Clients is a timely, much needed deep dive on a very important part of the API landscape.”

John Musser, CEO, API Science

“This book does a great job of explaining the basics and benefits of hypermedia and clearly articulates how client apps can make use of them. A must read for both API producers and consumers.”

Lorinda Brandon, API Strategist and Evangelist

“A must read for API practitioners who want to discover a way to design web applications with more resilience, agility, and reusability for both the short and the long term.”

Mehdi Medjaoui, Founder of APIdays conferences/OAuth.io

“A great resource on what to consider and implement when building RESTful web APIs and clients. I highly recommend it for anyone trying to build reusable APIs.”

Jeremy Wilken, Software Architect

“Whether you are a frontend or backend developer, reading this book will help you shift your understanding of designing and consuming APIs into higher gear.”

Mark W. Foster, Enterprise Architect, Distributed Systems

“This book is a must have for anyone building hypermedia based systems. It broaches one of the toughest and least understood topics head on, how to build hypermedia clients.”

Glenn Block, Director of Product Management for Auth0

“Mike’s delightful writing and technical excellence tells an easy-to-understand and relatable story that takes you from an RPC-style rookie to a hypermedia connoisseur in just a few pages. Impressive and highly recommended reading!”

Asbjørn Ulsberg, Business Architect, PayEx

“This book delivers on the piece developers have been missing about hypermedia: Learn to stop worrying and love responding to what the server sends.”

Brian Sletten, President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.

"RESTful Web Clients shows how applying hypermedia correctly results in a smaller, generic codebase that can adapt and evolve as the server’s capabilities change.”

Erik Mogensen, Chief Architect, Escenic

“APIs change, clients break. But does it have to be this way? What if they could not only survive, but adapt to change? This book is your guide through this adventure.”

Carles Jove i Buxeda, Full-stack Developer
and OS Contributor