# restcookbook/restcookbook

Jekyll cms site for restcookbook.com

Repository: https://github.com/restcookbook/restcookbook
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/restcookbook
Homepage: http://restcookbook.com
Language: CSS
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-07-21T19:32:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5012, "days_push": 2600, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1591, forks 296 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:08.672315+00:00)

## What it is
The REST Cookbook is a Jekyll-based documentation website (restcookbook.com) offering community-contributed recipes for building RESTful APIs, covering topics like HATEOAS, caching, versioning, and HTTP methods. The repository contains the site source, with contributions added as posts in the _posts directory.

## Use cases
- learn how to design a RESTful API
- find out when to use PUT vs POST
- understand HATEOAS and code-on-demand constraints
- learn how to version a REST API
- contribute a recipe explaining a REST pattern
- look up which HTTP status codes to send

## When to choose
- you want practical, recipe-style guidance on REST API design questions
- you want to contribute or fork a community-maintained REST tutorial site
- you need a quick reference for HTTP methods, caching, and versioning in APIs

## When to avoid
- you need a runnable library or framework rather than documentation
- you need up-to-date content - the site has seen little activity since 2019
- you need deep coverage of GraphQL, gRPC, or non-REST API styles

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, static-site-generator
- domain: web-development, apis, documentation, tutorials
- platform: cli
- tags: rest, jekyll, api-design, cookbook, http, web-server

## Member repositories
- restcookbook/restcookbook (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.672315+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:54:45.502001+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/restcookbook/restcookbook (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.672315+00:00, sha 5dc92f3b0962)
  - homepage: http://restcookbook.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:25:20.339629+00:00, sha ebbd0b3cf97c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.