Symfony RESTful API: Hypermedia, Links & Bonuses (Course 5)

After 4 courses, we've somehow avoided the hottest buzzwords in REST: Hypermedia and HATEOAS. These can make your API awesome, or could bring you to your knees with fuzzy details, missing best practices and complexity. Let's make our API awesome:

• Linking to Resources (and Hypermedia) without hating it
• Controlling your JSON fields with VirtualProperty and SerializedName
• Customizing your input field names with property_path
• The wonderful HATEOAS php library
• HAL+JSON... and whether you want to use it or not
• Subordinate resources!
• Handle ugly, non-RESTful, weird endpoints with some swagger

• The Battle Resource
• Designing (Testing) the Create Battle Endpoint
• Saving Related Resources in a Form
• Finishing the Battle
• VirtualProperty: Add Crazy JSON Fields
• Form Voodoo: property_path
• Adding Battle Validation
• EntityType Validation: Restrict Invalid programmerId
• HATEOAS & Hypermedia: The Buzzwords Level
• Link from Battle to Programmer
• The Great Hateoas PHP Library
• The HAL JSON Standard
• Embedding Objects with Hal?
• Customize how your Links Render
• Customizing (making less ugly) Embeddeds!
• Subordinate URL Structure
• Coding the Subordinate Resource Endpoint
• Rock-Solid, Consistent Collection Endpoints
• Weird Endpoint: The tagline as a Resource?
• Weird Endpoint: Command: Power-Up a Programmer