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 <jabberwor...@gmail.com> 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 clojurescript+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to clojurescript@googlegroups.com. > 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 clojurescript+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to clojurescript@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
