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The term 'REST API' has become conflated with 'nice API'. Nobody will object to saying 'shall we make it a REST API?', because it's like saying 'shall we make i
by Confusion 10y ago
The term 'REST API' has become conflated with 'nice API'. Nobody will object to saying 'shall we make it a REST API?', because it's like saying 'shall we make it a nice API?'.
REST has (had?) a very specific meaning, as defined by Roy Fielding in his dissertation. People seem to be objecting against using the term 'REST' for things that are not REST in that sense. But of course that's just arguing whether you use the correct word for what you built, not whether what you built is the right solution for your problem. So if they are trying to argue that it isn't, then their argument is fallacious.