GraphQL Is Dead: Long Live REST APIs with Hypermedia
summary
The talk compares GraphQL and REST and argues that REST is not dead by showing how REST APIs enhanced with Hypermedia (HATEOAS) offer strong evolution capabilities. It explains what REST truly means, why Hypermedia is gaining popularity, and how designing RESTful Hypermedia APIs enables safer, more evolvable API ecosystems.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 14:25Richardson Maturity Model
- 15:08Hypermedia Controls
- 18:44Pagination with Hypermedia
- 22:39Actions with Hypermedia
- 24:29Shared Vocabularies
- 27:59Mapping Internal Terms to Standards
- 35:14Key Points for Developing the API
- 39:13A Hypermedia Consumer Is Like a Game Loop
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