I actually agree with this. I don't think Relay will "overweight" REST.
On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 5:00:41 PM UTC+2, marc fawzi wrote: > As an engineer, you have to make compromises. You can't cover all edge cases > and scenarios. It's more likely that your system will fail because it's too > complex and not because it's too specific to a common set of scenarios. There > is one class of scenarios where Relay would over complicate things and fail > from an architecture point of view. > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Ivan Kleshnin <[email protected]> wrote: > > The client having heavy a priori knowledge of the server's data structure > > seems particularly opposed to REST's HATEOAS principle, though I know they > > explicitly said Relay operates off a GraphQL endpoint, not a RESTful API. > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS > > > http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven > > > > Noone seems to build their APIs upon HATEOAS principles (FB, Twitter, Google, > Amazon... all just use "normal" old school REST 2-3 layer. Yeah, yeah... > "they don't understand REST"... > > I personally consider HATEOAS as worthless hype, promoted mainly by > idealistic fanboys. > > They want to talk only about benefits (moslty virtual) of HATEOAS, being in > total ignorance of HATEOAS drawbacks (there are many). > > > > > > -- > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
