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Am I stupid? Is the crux of the article that HTML/hypermedia has built-in representations for API items such as links to other resources (i.e. as in the example
by 000ooo000 3y ago
Am I stupid? Is the crux of the article that HTML/hypermedia has built-in representations for API items such as links to other resources (i.e. as in the examples of the article), but JSON (for e.g.) doesn't. Therefore, using this 'standard' schema decouples your application components because one (e.g. the frontend) doesn't need to understand a particular, custom schema (re)implemented in nonhypermedia?
- recursivedoubts 3y agoThat's roughly correct. What's interesting, from the perspective of this article, is that at the application level, a hypermedia API is much more tightly bound to your particular application (you are returning specific UI to the client that would be a pain for a third party to consume) but that, despite that tighter coupling, the hypermedia API handles changes better.