If you are designing a REST API, please don't follow this author's advice and return HTML instead of JSON. HTML takes much longer to parse and makes the API more fragile.
The history did its job: it preserved the most useful features of the original idea (expressing RPCs as URLs in GET and POST requests) and has dropped the unnecessarily complicated bits.
What this article is about is a pedantic terminology battle of whether to call the current practice REST or not.
The history did its job: it preserved the most useful features of the original idea (expressing RPCs as URLs in GET and POST requests) and has dropped the unnecessarily complicated bits.
What this article is about is a pedantic terminology battle of whether to call the current practice REST or not.