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In theory yes, in practice, I never saw REST discoverability being used much IRL
by sametmax 10y ago
In theory yes, in practice, I never saw REST discoverability being used much IRL
- yen223 10y agoGraphQL puts discoverability front and centre, by prioritizing introspection and static typing. GraphiQL (the browser-based GraphQL explorer) is pretty hard to beat. Check out Github's GraphQL explorer for a great example of this: https://developer.github.com/early-access/graphql/explorer/ https://developer.github.com/early-access/graphql/explorer/
- SEJeff 10y agoBecause 90% of the "REST" developers don't actually build hypermedia apis, so they aren't really "REST" if you denote "REST" as somewhat complies with Roy Fielding's paper where he invented the acronym REST