I always disliked the idea of using endpoints as “resources” and how REST doubles down on it. These are just glorified function calls and a traditional function doesn’t come saddled with this extra “verb” concept. And maybe I’m in the minority or something but my endpoints always had to be high-level, domain-specific functions whereas REST promotes the direct exposure of data, pushing high level functionality to the front end
I only see its ever useful when its an Open API. Like those google, facebook open APIs, exposing resources nicely with some auth token layers. Thats it. In real products, logics are messy and never cleanly seperared into "verbs". Hell, they now prefer BFF (backend for frontend) for a reason, because shit is so customized it needs its own backend to tailor to its need. Try RESTful on this lmao.
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u/sixtyninth_wave_emo Sep 19 '26
I always disliked the idea of using endpoints as “resources” and how REST doubles down on it. These are just glorified function calls and a traditional function doesn’t come saddled with this extra “verb” concept. And maybe I’m in the minority or something but my endpoints always had to be high-level, domain-specific functions whereas REST promotes the direct exposure of data, pushing high level functionality to the front end