> Instead you get this snarky blog post telling people that they are doing REST wrong, rather than pointing out that REST is something almost nobody needs (self discoverable APIs intended for evolvable clients).

Were using actual REST right now. That's what SSR html uses.

The rest of your (vastly snarkier) diatribe can be ignored.

And, yet, you then said the following, which seems to contradict the rest of what you said before it...

> Bangs head at desk over and over and over. A webapp that is using HTML and JS downloaded from the server is following the spirit of HATEOAS. The client evolves with the server. That's the entire point of REST and HATEOAS.