How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST? ↗ Reading List
<time datetime="2022-07-19 08:22:31 +0200 +0200">19 July 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>100 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>
And here I thought I knew full well what RESTful APIs had to look like. The constraint in my head was that individual resources (e.g. items in a database) should have their own URL and you used the HTTP verbs (GET
, POST
, DELETE
, etc.) correctly.
What was missing from that is the Hypermedia aspect, where each response defines the appropriate URLs for the possible next steps.
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