Awesome REST

This is a link repository centralizing resources, tools and frameworks about REST architecture. Feel free to contribute to this ongoing list.

Designing

How to design a REST API?: a full guide tackling security, pagination, filtering, versioning, partial answers, CORS, etc.
Haters gonna HATEOAS: a clear explanation on what HATEOAS is, and why you should use it.
RAML: a simple and succinct way to describe RESTful API

Baucis: build scalable REST API based on your Mongoose entities
node-restify: a framework specifically meant for REST API
mers: an Express service to expose Mongoose finders as RESTful API
Sails.js: a Node.js Web framework embedding a command to generate automatically a REST API

phprest: specialized REST microframework for PHP
Hateoas: a PHP library to support implementing representations for HATEOAS REST web services
Microrest: a micro-web application providing a REST API on top of any relational database

REST APIs with Symfony2: the Right Way: a complete guide to build a state-of-the-art REST API with Symfony2 framework
FOSRestBundle: bundle handling view, routing, error handling, etc. for your REST API
stanlemon/rest-bundle: build a REST API based on Doctrine entities using conventions over configuration
Lionframe: a glu between several community libraries to ease API development
BazingaHateoasBundle: integrate the Hateoas library into a Symfony2 application
Symfony REST Edition: start with a Symfony2 application with all REST-friendly bundles pre-configured

go-json-rest: a thin layer on top of net/http that helps building RESTufmigl API easily

httpie: a command line HTTP client, far more dev-friendly than curl
Postman REST Client: a Chrome extension essential to test manually REST API
FakeRest: patch XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API client-side
json-server: serve a REST API from fixture files using quick prototyping
resty: little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh)