REST

[TimoKinnunen]

Why not rename REST to REDT? State is data, isn't it? And we don't know what state refers to in REST, don't we? Thanks.

[Lost User]

No, state is condition: Representational state transfer - Wikipedia[^]

[Pete OHanlon]

If you think state is data, chances are you are committing the cardinal sin and just doing CRUD over HTTP. State is about more than data, it helps to represent a state machine telling you not just what the current state is, but if you use HATEOAS, it tells you what operations you can do next.

Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

[cmarble]

It is as though somebody meant ESTABLISHED were free market dynamics for information networking, but although they never caught up with handshaking, many cases are logged trying to find out if OPTIONS was really a communist ideal.