REST API

REST API

1. Representational State Transfer

   • Architecture style for designing networked applications
     • Relies on a stateless, client-server protocol, almost always HTTP
   • Treats server objects as resources that can be created of destroyed. They're like posts that can be requested
   • Can be used by virtually any programming language. Mainly JSON
   • Client Server
   • REST is a set of principles that define how Web standards, such as HTTP and URLs, are supposed to work

2. Application Programming Interface

   • APIs are Everywhere
   • Contract provided by one piece of software to another
     • Structured request and response
       • Like ordering food and waiter brings it back to chef, chef cooks it and water brings back food.
   • Response
   • Request

3. Authentication

   • Some API's require authentication to use their service. This could be free or paid
   • curl https://