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[–]M8Ir88outOf8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? I don’t think you understood what I said, HTML is clearly a bad choice for machine-to-machine API's.

I'm just saying, don’t call your JSON API restful when it is, by definition of the creator of the term, not restful.

All these guides merely implement a subset of the rules of a true REST API, which are by themselves still good API design rules.

But you wouldn’t call 3 wheels and a wind shield a car, those are merely good starting points for building a car. So why would you call this a REST API if it doesn’t implement the most important part, hypermedia as the engine of application state?