A Plug-based Elixir toolkit for building JSON:API compliant servers.
Relax is an Elixir library that provides a Plug-based toolkit for building web servers compliant with the JSON:API specification. It simplifies the creation of RESTful APIs by offering abstractions for routing, resource handling, and response serialization, ensuring adherence to JSON:API standards.
Elixir developers building JSON:API compliant backends, particularly those using Phoenix or other Plug-based web frameworks who need a structured approach to API development.
Relax offers a lightweight, declarative way to implement JSON:API servers in Elixir, reducing boilerplate and ensuring spec compliance through integration with JaSerializer and a clear resource-based architecture.
Simple Elixir implementation of a jsonapi.org server.
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Built on top of Plug, it seamlessly integrates with Phoenix or other Plug-compatible frameworks, reducing setup complexity as shown in the example router.
Simplifies CRUD operations and filtering through defined resource modules, allowing developers to implement logic like custom filters in a structured way.
Supports key JSON:API features such as content negotiation, filtering, and sorting, ensuring basic spec adherence through integration with JaSerializer.
Provides a clean, versioned router to define API endpoints declaratively, making endpoint management straightforward as demonstrated in the example.
The README's compliance checklist shows missing features like pagination, includes, sparse fieldsets, and relationship handling, limiting full JSON:API adherence.
It's pre-1.0 with APIs still stabilizing, as warned in the README, posing risks of breaking changes and instability for production use.
Relies heavily on JaSerializer for serialization, which can lead to vendor lock-in and potential limitations if JaSerializer lacks updates or features.