REST it pretty stupid, but it works over HTTP(S) and is state-less. And tools that use HTTP has nice abstraction layers already, and are very common, so it beco

REST it pretty stupid, but it works over HTTP(S) and is state-less. And tools that use HTTP has nice abstraction layers already, and are very common, so it becomes simple to use. Personally for talking with a web front-end I would use Websocket's with long-polling as fallback. And use JSON instead of query-string for querying. It does however require yet an abstraction layer, and is more brittle and less secure then REST. REST is a school-bus. Other methods are like exotic sports-cars.