O API — an alternative to REST APIs

[cnavarro]

https://hackernoon.com/o-api-an-alterna ... a2ed53b93c

[Carlos Mora]

It looks like a mix of RPC and REST.
REST is a convention, and shapes and exploits resources using standards. Given an URL that exposes a resource, you can tell how the resource can be consumed.
With modern tools, and thanks to that convention, it is not required to explicitly write every single route for a REST service. As an example, in Laravel you write:

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Route::Resource(''/api/user/:userId/cart', UserCartController::class) and you are done! 

In the other side, in Javascript you can use things like RestOMatic, that builds the whole service to consume a REST service in 2 lines.

With the OApi any of the methods are predictable, you write every single one in both sides of the application, going against the principle "Convention over Configuration", http://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/#convention-over-configuration
For complex resources, GraphQL looks a better alternative, givin the power of SQL-like querys over the same path REST uses.

KR

[Carlos Mora]

BTW, in the photo, there are at least 2 missing boxes. ¿Can you tell wich ones?

[cnavarro]

BTW, in the photo, there are at least 2 missing boxes. ¿Can you tell wich ones?

Carlos, no entiendo a qué foto te refieres

[Carlos Mora]

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