Meetup at Teamleader

Building your API with Apiary & Dredd

Building API's often involves writing tests which are directly bound to the codebase of the API. Besides writing tests you also want to provide a thorough and up-to-date documentation of your API for your users or developers. Keeping your API in sync with your documentation can be a tedious thing. Apiary & Dredd can help you solve these problems. In this live-coding talk you will learn how to leverage Dredd to test your API against a Blueprint specification instead of using tests. After that we're going to see how we can use Apiary to provide public and constantly up-to-date documentation for your users and developers. We'll take a closer look at Dredd hooks and Blueprint to see how we can use it to its max. potential. Eventually we'll integrate all of this in a continuous integration workflow so we can automate the process altogether. To wrap it up we'll check into some extra features Apiary offers to build your API.

By Dries Vints (https://twitter.com/driesvints), lead developer at Beatswitch (https://twitter.com/beatswitch)

Adding focus to your models

Remember when they told us to have skinny controllers and fat models? What about service classes? Do you remember a time before that?In this talk we'll go through a bit of history and I'll show how you can improve your models by making them more focused on what really matters.

Warning: may contain small tangents on Value Objects and CQRS.

By Jonas Drieghe (https://twitter.com/jonasdrieghe), Software Engineer at madewithlove (https://twitter.com/madewithlove)