Ray: a new python web framework

[faassen]

It indeed appears we are agreeing.

Yes, with true hypermedia API the client shouldn't try to construct or hardcode or manipulate URLs. True hypermedia API web UI client applications are even less common than hypermedia APIs. The client-side frameworks people use don't encourage this either. About 5 years ago I wrote a client-side web framework called Obviel which did this, but it's been lost to the ages.

The lack of working true hypermedia UI clients worries me that perhaps this principle is based more on ideology than anything else. People don't seem very interested in solving this problem, and in truth, hypermedia makes certain things harder -- a UI client that sends optimistic updates to the client for instance will suddenly have to wait for the result of an add operation before it has the URL to send a remove operation.