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hypermedia apis are not good data apis, as I say in the article: https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/#but-that-s-a-terrible-data-api https://h
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hypermedia apis are not good data apis, as I say in the article:
https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/#but-that-s-a-terrible-data-api https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/#but-th...
> Many people would object that, sure, this hypermedia API may be flexible for our web application, but it makes for a terrible general purpose API.
> This is quite true. This hypermedia API is tuned for a specific web application. It would be cumbersome and error-prone to try to download this HTML, parse it and try to extract information from it. This hypermedia API only makes sense as part of a larger hypermedia system, being consumed by a proper hypermedia client.