Understanding REST APIs: A Simple Guide For Web Developers
REST API is a web service interaction style over HTTP, like ordering food online. Send requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) and the server responds accordingly. Must follow principles like client-server architecture & statelessness.
In the world of web development, you often hear the terms REST API and RESTful services. But what do they mean, and how do they apply to our daily lives? Let’s break it down with simple explanations and real-world examples. What is a REST API? REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style that guides how web services should work. An API (Application Programming Interface) is a way for different software applications to communicate. Put simply, a REST API is a set of rules that allows different systems to interact over the internet using HTTP (like a web browser does when you...