Although JSON’s compact size and object-friendly nature make it very easy to use as a data representation, it's lack of a standard model schema can prompt some developers to invent different ways for representing complex model relationships in their data. As the complexities of JSON modeling between front-end applications and back-end web servers has increased, so has the advantages of standardizing JSON model representations in web applications. The JSON API standard is a popular way of standardizing how applications interact with REST API response models of API resources. The JSON API format is simply a schema for structuring your model so that its relationships with other data can be represented in a consistent, normalized manner.
Consider our blog post model schema. We have an array of blog posts items, each with an ID as well as...