REST APIs
Explore the core concepts of REST APIs and their architectural principles, such as statelessness and cacheability. Learn the standard HTTP methods used in RESTful services and understand how REST differs from RPC. This lesson equips you to handle interview questions about REST API design and usage effectively.
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Now that you know an API is just a structured way to get data or software/hardware services from a system, let’s see what a REST API is. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. It’s an architecture style for distributed hypermedia systems, and it was a part of Roy Fielding’s thesis, which is why the name seems complex even though the underlying concept isn’t.
A ‘RESTful API’ is an API that follows the six guiding REST principles. In recent years, REST has emerged as the standard architectural design for web services and web APIs.
What is REST?
The characteristics of a REST system are defined by ...