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Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful by motorest on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:49AM (#44517691)
> Only because we never had the tools and resources that, say, GraphQL has.

GraphQL promised to solve real-world problems.

What real world problems does HATEOAS addresses? None.

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Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful by troupo on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:00AM (#44518498)
GraphQL was "promising" something because it was a thing by a single company.

HATEOAS didn't need to "promise" anything since it was just describing already existing protocols and capabilities that you can see in the links I posted.

And that's how you got POST-only GraphQL which for years has been busily reinventing half of HTTP

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