RE: Hello world

Hi Tom,

On 16 Jul 2015 at 12:41, tom.panier@free.fr wrote:
> I'm Tom, and I just joined the Hydra W3C community group on Markus Lanthaler's advice.

Great to see you here :-)


> I've been introduced to the world of Hydra, JSON-LD and Schema.org by a French fellow
> (just like me) named Kévin Dunglas, who recently did an amazing job at implementing those
> three standards in a full-fledged PHP framework named API Platform (actually built on top
> of Symfony, for those of you who are familiar with it).

+1, fantastic work


> He then demonstrated his work at a
> Symfony conference in Paris I was attending, and I realized these were the future of web
> APIs.

I actually didn't realize that. Was the talk recorded?


> As a PHP *and* JavaScript developer, I decided to contribute some time myself to
> this topic and started working on a Hydra/JSON-LD library for the LoopBack framework
> (designed to build HTTP APIs). It is currently a work in progress, as I am in touch with
> Markus and the LoopBack people to make it go forward as much as I can. Long story short,
> I joined this group to be able to get information which can help me with this project, and let
> you know about my progress if you guys care.

Please keep us posted.


> On a more general note, you can learn more about me on my blog (he link is at the bottom of
> this mail).
> 
> I would like to add, if it wasn't already clear, that I as a regular API
> builder and consumer, have the greatest respect for what you guys are
> doing and cannot wait until it finally lands everywhere!

Thanks for the kind words! What we probably need most at the moment is investment in tooling and libraries. So contributions like yours will be critical to the success.


Cheers,
Markus


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Received on Tuesday, 21 July 2015 20:58:41 UTC