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Re:Best practices for REST API design (2020) by rualca on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:24AM (#26247530)
> I'm not fine with making an API use HATEOAS

And that's perfectly fine, but don't call what you're doing REST because it really isn't.

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Re:Best practices for REST API design (2020) by incrudible on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:49AM (#26249291)
This is a semantic dispute. Our disagreement is on whether this is a dispute worth arguing over.

There are many other industry buzzwords like "object oriented" that don't match up with what the people who coined the term had in mind. It's a nuisance, but nothing to get worked up over.

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