On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 09:22:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:30:50 UTC, yawniek wrote:
in my opinion also the REST style apis will come to an end as
we can easily have
stateless apis these days ( 86.62%of browsers have websockets
already according to http://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets ).
The whole ghetto around maintaining state over http for a web
application is nuts if you think about how native applications
work.
But REST is supposed to be stateless! You maintain state in the
client and use the server like a database/information service.
Most applications are better off with REST and SPDY as the main
transport.
Websockets are of limited usefulness, and only for auxillary
information (e.g. pushing notifications about updates). It's
only a TCP connection where the server can initiate
communication.
sorry typo. i meant "we now can have statefull apis".
and i disagree on the limited usefulness.
do you have REST api in native apps? i don't see much reason why
we should not develop web applications the way we develop native
apps.
