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Almost every web developer knows what REST is (or at least heard about it), but much fewer of them know about HATEOAS, although it’s an essential part of the REST style.

HATEOAS stands for Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State. Formally, it’s a constraint of the REST application architecture, but in fact, it’s a structured format of responses that includes not only the requested data but also ways for working with it. It means that it’s enough for a client to know just some static URL, and everything else will be discovered in the process.