Could Hypermedia-Driven Application architecture be useful for AP C2S?

Danyl Strype @strypey@socialhub.activitypub.rocks

Check out this intro to HDA (Hypermedia-Driven Applications);

https://hda.daz.is/architecture/why-hypermedia-driven-architecture/

This seems relevant to the ongoing discussions about C2S APIs for the fediverse, especially the proliferation of the monolithic server+web-app antipattern. If Daz (@daz@social.coop) is correct, properly RESTful APIs that use an HDA architecture might be a way to realise Christine Webber's original vision. Fediverse web apps with specific purposes, like browsing and posting video, as ways to login to generic AP servers hosting general-purpose accounts.

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