Understanding REST APIs

Nouns as URLs, verbs as HTTP methods, everything cacheable — a simple discipline with big consequences.

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REST API(Technology) is an architectural style described by Roy Fielding in 2000.

Resources and verbs

Every resource has a URL. Standard HTTP(Protocol) verbs — GET, POST, PUT, DELETE — manipulate it.

When clients need different subsets of the data, GraphQL(Technology) is often a better fit.

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