JSON API now has a MIME type

If you hadn’t heard, JSON API is a format that myself and Yehuda Katz have been persuing to help standardize APIs. It came out of the work done on ember-data and active_model_serializers.

We’ve been tweaking the format after receiving feedback from many people, and both the exemplar implementations as well as a variety of other implementations have made it pretty easy to use our format.

Here’s the news, though: we’re one step further along the standardization process.

Recently, the IANA approved our application for a media type designation for JSON API. This means you can officially serve your APIs with the type application/vnd.api+json. Neat!