REST API Overview
Explore the core concepts of REST API, including its architecture, constraints, and common HTTP methods. Understand how REST APIs facilitate interactions between client and server using JSON and HTTP status codes.
What is REST?
Representational State Transfer (REST) can be defined as an architectural style used to create and design web resources that communicate via an HTTP protocol. Over time, REST has become the industry standard in software development for creating reliable REST APIs. The REST architecture is designed to work with six guiding constraints, which are as follows:
- Simplicity
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Portability
- Modifiability
- Visibility
Note: A web resource or API that follows the above REST constraints is described as ...