Criação de Framework REST/HATEOAS Open Source para desenvolvimento de APIs em NodeJS

• Autor(a) principal: Filipe Perdigão de Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/83505
• topic: Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática; Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

The appearing of the REST, Representational State Transfer, an architectural pattern, came to improve the development context of web services with an alternative for implementation of computer distributed systems, attempting that, through a simple way, it was possible to develop an API, Application Programming Interface, for communication between the system's components, particularly between the server and the different available clients.Allied to this fact, there were so many implementations, compatible with various programming languages, like Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, JavaScript, and others, in order to provide developers a easy way to implement their services, attending this architecture. Nowadays Node.js technology is highly used for web applications development, in particular for the implementation of this type of services. The theme of this dissertation appears in this context, the development of a Node.js framework which allows to offer creators of this kind of service a way to create REST APIs following the best practices and technology trends of language and community involved, thus offering a technologically competitive solution.As one of the main objectives and innovation points, the framework intends to give developers the ability to follow the standards and recommended restrictions for such services from an almost transparent way, allowing that easily and automatically some concepts are instilled providing the services development as correctly as possible. Despite the features that are automatically instilled in services, the framework also aims to offer to programmers some technological freedom, allowing them to make their own decisions about some components required for the service.Another main objective is the capability of services implementation that allows the integration with applications developed in a NoBackend approach, in which the backend tasks are abstracted in the development of respective clients. This feature also allows the automatically generation of client code that can be included in their clients.Moreover, this dissertation also has as an objective, the development of a framework that offers data serialization mechanisms in JSON format, automatic API documentation, logging, analytic and also the automatic generation of web forms for API test.