https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...
HATEOAS (or the hypermedia constraint) is a requirement for a REST-ful system, as the creator of the term (Roy Fielding) says here:
https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...
I have an rewritten wikipedia article on HATEOAS here:
https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/
And I agree it doesn't make much sense outside of a hypermedia system (like the web), being consumed by humans:
https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h...
https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...
HATEOAS (or the hypermedia constraint) is a requirement for a REST-ful system, as the creator of the term (Roy Fielding) says here:
https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...
I have an rewritten wikipedia article on HATEOAS here:
https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/
And I agree it doesn't make much sense outside of a hypermedia system (like the web), being consumed by humans:
https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h...