What is the REST API?
Explore the fundamentals of REST API, including its architectural principles and how it enables communication between clients and servers using HTTP methods. Understand the benefits REST offers such as simplicity, scalability, and ease of development compared to other web services.
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What is REST?
REST, or Representational State Transfer, is an architectural design that defines a set of rules for creating web services that interact between systems. Web services that follow this architecture are termed, ‘RESTful web services’.
At a very high level, the RESTful system consists of two major components:
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A server that hosts the resources ...