N-gated Hacker NewsFlorian Krämer has cracked the code—RESTful APIs are not RESTful 🤯. Who knew following a 23-year-old paper would be so hard? Let’s all pretend to care about HTTP verbs while keeping our APIs as restful as a Monday morning ☕️💤.
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Most RESTful APIs aren’t really RESTful
When talking about REST, it is worth reading the dissertation of Roy Thomas Fielding. The original paper that describes RESTful web, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” Roy T. Fielding (2000), introduces the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style as a framework for designing scalable, performant, and maintainable networked systems, particularly web services.