Steve left out some context regarding what hypermedia API entails. I believe the essence of a hypermedia API is that the client does not construct URLs but ins

Steve left out some context regarding what hypermedia API entails. I believe the essence of a hypermedia API is that the client does not construct URLs but instead follows links. Only the server constructs URLs, and the only URL the client should be aware of (that was not generated by the server and delivered in an HTTP response) is the initial URL.