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A Hypermedia API is essentially what a by-the-book REST API is. Most "REST" APIs don't meet the hypermedia requirement outlined in the original dissertation. Bu
by johns 14y ago
A Hypermedia API is essentially what a by-the-book REST API is. Most "REST" APIs don't meet the hypermedia requirement outlined in the original dissertation. But because the term REST has been generalized beyond what it actually was defined as, some purists have taken to calling truly RESTful APIs "Hypermedia APIs"
- kintamanimatt 14y agoThat seems to happen a lot, kinda like how the Rails framework misapplies the MVC pattern and is really a MVA framework. I just assumed it was some new fad around APIs; I found a conference talk I'll watch later. One day I'm going to release the OMFGBBQ pattern. I don't know what it does yet.