HATEOAS stands for “Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State” and it is one of the possible constraints that you can place on a REST compliant API. Essentially what it means is that your API is as navigable as a normal website, with hyperlinks leading to other resources.  The focus of this blog is not HATEOAS itself – instead focusing on an implementation of it our team recently used for our project’s API.

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