That's right, REST concepts are largely wasted on modern SPA applications, which are fundamentally RPC-style clients. Instead, REST should be used in its origi

That's right, REST concepts are largely wasted on modern SPA applications, which are fundamentally RPC-style clients. Instead, REST should be used in its original context: hypermedia clients (browsers) exchanging hypermedia (HTML) with the server. I have written an alternative front end library that takes this exact approach: https://htmx.org https://htmx.org Some more essays on the topic: https://htmx.org/essays/spa-alternative/ https://htmx.org/essays/spa-alternative/ https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-apis-vs-data-apis/ https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-apis-vs-data-apis/