> IMO, the benefits of HATEOAS are very much overblown Much overblown in the context of JSON APIs. In this article I am (in part) arguing that HATEOAS (and,

> IMO, the benefits of HATEOAS are very much overblown Much overblown in the context of JSON APIs. In this article I am (in part) arguing that HATEOAS (and, therefore, REST) don't make much sense when working with JSON, but make a ton of sense when working with HTML, and, therefore, when building hypermedia-based systems.