Developer Guides

Longer, practical walkthroughs for developers working with structured data day to day -- the kind of guide we wished existed when we ran into these problems ourselves.

  • Designing JSON APIs that stay clean as they grow.
  • Validating request and response bodies with JSON Schema, without turning every endpoint into a wall of boilerplate.
  • Working with XML namespaces without losing an afternoon to them.
  • Safely minifying JavaScript inside a real build pipeline, not just as a one-off paste.
  • Generating and consuming UUIDs correctly -- collision risk, formatting conventions, and where version 4 is (and isn't) the right choice.

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