> It seems like when taken to an extreme, strong HATEOAS would mean you could write a universal client that works across all APIs. And if you go with HAL or JS

> It seems like when taken to an extreme, strong HATEOAS would mean you could write a universal client that works across all APIs. And if you go with HAL or JSON-LD, you have to use a specific clients for those formats, so not universal anyway. I tend to agree with "HATEOAS is for Humans"[1], HATEOAS makes sense when interacting with HTML. [1]: https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h...