graphiti-api/graphiti

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Graphiti is a Ruby framework for building JSON:API-compliant APIs on top of your models (typically ActiveRecord). It replaces hand-written controllers and serializers with declarative Resource classes that provide filtering, sorting, pagination, sparse fieldsets, statistics, and sideloaded relationships.

Use cases

• build a JSON:API-compliant REST API in Rails
• expose ActiveRecord models with filtering, sorting, and pagination
• sideload related records in a single API request
• replace JBuilder or ActiveModelSerializers with a standardized API layer
• build consistent microservice APIs with minimal boilerplate
• support sparse fieldsets and statistics endpoints
• handle nested writes across relationships over one endpoint

When to choose

• you are building a Rails (or Ruby) API and want JSON:API compliance out of the box
• you want filtering, sorting, pagination, and sideloading without writing boilerplate per endpoint
• your JavaScript SPA client can speak the JSON:API protocol
• you want resource-oriented API organization instead of per-controller serialization logic

When to avoid

• you need a fully custom, non-standard JSON response shape for every endpoint
• you are not using Ruby or Rails
• your API is trivial and a simple serializer like JBuilder suffices
• you need GraphQL rather than JSON:API

Facets

framework · maturity active

serialization api-framework web-framework middleware web-development backend apis developer-tools ruby -api rails resource-oriented-api sideloading rest-api web-server

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