Elide JSON API Client

An opinionated {json:api} client for Elide based APIs

There are already a number of client libraries for working with JSON API, however this library is specifically designed for interacting with Elide based APIs, which has a few of it's own unique characteristics.

Features

Built with Typescript!
Built on top of axios as a peer dependency
Supports Promises and async/await
JSON API response normalization
- Flatter structure
- Merges included relationship data
Serializes normalized resources back to a JSON API structure
- Dates are converted to Unix epoch time for Elide
- Protected fields can be omitted from being sent to the API
Supports JSON Patch Extension for bulk writes and complex mutations
Parameter serialization
- Fields, filter, include, sort
- Pagination: size & number OR offset & limit
Request caching and throttling

Basic Usage

import ApiClient from 'elide-jsonapi-client'

// Initialize a new client
const api = new ApiClient({
  baseURL: 'http://localhost/api',
})

// Fetch a resource collection
const res = await api.fetch('articles')

// Create a resource
api.create('articles', {
  type: 'articles',
  title: 'Hello World',
})

// Update a resource
api.update('articles/1', {
  id: '1',
  type: 'articles',
  title: 'Hello World!!!',
})

// Remove a resource
api.remove('articles', 1)