restdoesnotsuck

The author's main beef in this article are the more exotic HTTP verbs. I don't think that gets at the crux of why REST sucks for Web Services/APIs.

The core problem is that REST (which, recall is a description of the web architecture) requires HATEOAS. JSON doesn't naturally implement a hypertext in the way that HTML does and, further, the other end of a JSON call is almost certainly code, rather than a human, and thus isn't able to take advantage of this feature anyway.

Here are a few articles on this general idea:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...