</> htmx ~ How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
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  • @arendjr@programming.dev
    9•1 month ago

    Opinionated summary: Developers saw REST, picked the good parts and ignored the rest (no pun intended). They still called it REST, for lack of a better word, even though things like HATEOAS were overkill for most of the applications.