HTML gives you HATEOAS without thinking about it: http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is

HTML gives you HATEOAS without thinking about it: http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht... and is the minimum level of complexity necessary for a human web interface. Rails isn't necessarily better than other platforms at producing HTML: it does support rendering partials which is nice: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html. So, rails is pretty good at it, but I can imagine other tools being perfectly competent at the problem as well.