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by sametmax 3474 days ago
In theory yes, in practice, I never saw REST discoverability being used much IRL
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GraphQL puts discoverability front and centre, by prioritizing introspection and static typing. GraphiQL (the browser-based GraphQL explorer) is pretty hard to beat.

Check out Github's GraphQL explorer for a great example of this: https://developer.github.com/early-access/graphql/explorer/

Because 90% of the "REST" developers don't actually build hypermedia apis, so they aren't really "REST" if you denote "REST" as somewhat complies with Roy Fielding's paper where he invented the acronym REST