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		recursivedoubts on Nov 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to (and how not to) design REST APIs You are still building an API, it's just a hypermedia API: https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-apis-vs-data-apis/ REST was coined to describe the web. It has been misapplied to JSON APIs over HTTP, and the way we got here is a funny story: https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi... other related essays: https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-clients/ https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h... https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

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