Ask HN: What's the best way to develop a RESTful API in 2016?

I know. Best is relative, pick the tool for the job, etc.

I just want to know what would HN users recommend.

Is the classic approach of handcrafting endpoints and permissions still the way to go?

Is there some new tool that easily abstract those common and repetitive tasks (routes, permissions, auth, etc)?

We've been considering ArangoDB with Foxx for our next enterprise project to be able to have relational document based data. Foxx seems to be a great tool for rapidly developing an API.