I find myself implementing similar backend APIs when I develop applications. These APis are more often than not based on REST principles with JSON payloads. As a result, I have publised the start of a simple JSON API spec at <a href="http://simple-json-api.com" rel="nofollow">http://simple-json-api.com</a>. This specification makes it easy to write both backend and frontend code to handle the data communication between the applications in a uniform manner. This approach makes it possible to write a fairly small amount of code to get advanced functionality on the frontend-data-layer.<p>While some good API specifications do exist, this project attempts to provide a common middle-ground being not too complex, while broad enough to not be too specific and too complex.<p>While, for instance, JSON:API is a thorough specification, Simple JSON API aims to provide a much simplified data-structure leaving the server-side specifics out of the specification. At the same time, while specifications such as JSON Web Key (JWK) is too narrow.