Can someone explain the exact definition of RESTful in simple terms? or What’s the real definition of

Wow, thanks y’all! This clears up so much. I was stuck on the whole HATEOAS thing, but seeing that most APIs don’t even use it makes me feel better.

Gonna check out the GitHub API and maybe play with Postman to see how it works in practice.

One follow-up: if HATEOAS isn’t widely used, what’s the *bare minimum* to call an API RESTful? Just resources + HTTP methods + statelessness?