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REST Architecture

Explore the six guiding principles of REST architecture to understand how RESTful services structure interactions between clients and servers. Learn about client-server separation, statelessness, caching, uniform interfaces, layered systems, and optional code on demand. This lesson helps you grasp the foundation for designing and testing REST APIs effectively.

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Guiding principles of REST

A RESTful service needs to comply with the following 6 guiding constraints:

  • Client–Server – the main principle behind this is the separation of concerns, i.e, separating the user interface concern from the data storage concerns. By following this principle, we can improve the:

    • portability of the user interface across platforms
    • scalability by simplifying the server component

  • Stateless – each request from the client must be sent to the server with all the necessary ...