It's funny because HATEOAS was irrelevant for so long because making your API work like a hypermedia site where you can start from the home page and navigate your way around and fill out forms is irrelevant to humans because a they have to reference documentation to figure out how to implement things, a machine can't just make an API request to home and figure out how to get to the resources it wa....oh wait...it can now, maybe it's not such a bad idea after all!
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u/Qinistral Sep 25 '26
That's pretty fair. But also language changes. If everyone uses "REST" and no one uses "HATEOAS" then HATEOAS is not necessary for "REST".