It's 2019 and companies still create apis without any hypermedia controls /hateoas. They require you to read some id from the responses body and use it at the other endpoint. Like wtf. Do people even know how webAPIs work?!

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I've learned about hateoas and level-3 apis but never really bothered to implement them, I've also never really had any need for them in the apis I use on a daily basis

I'm perfectly OK with Richardson's level-2

Nobody gives a fuck about HATEOAS...

Most people are just happy to get an API that works / allows them to solve the problem they have.

@unsignedint well I only partially agree. I mean I get it: sometimes you just have to get things done.

The lack of willingness to adhere to some standards / useful and commonly known just baffles me.

With my rant I especially had a large corporation's api in mind. I just expect more from tech corporations. What one does on a little side project or PoC, clearly doesn't need HATEOAS.