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REST is not a strict specification and it's not a single implementation, you can just start doing it.
That said, I wouldn't recommend going the allow everything flexible resolver way like GraphQL: it's terrible for performance (eg. most APIs use N+1 queries unless you have something like https://github.com/join-monster/join-monster), the complexity of the codebase skyrockets and having to specify all the fields you want is not exactly ergonomic in most situations.
Well, that might be true when implementing from the scratch, but using a standard often also means, that someone has implemented a well known library to get rid of the boilerplate and basic decisions.
I personally often use jsonapi.net[1], a C# implementation of JSONAPI. This supports OpenAPI/Swagger with swashbuckle, has a very good filtering implementation and together with Orbit.js[2] it is pretty much without having to decide many things...
[1]: https://www.jsonapi.net/