Change is inevitable and this is no different with APIs. If APIs are successful, they evolve over time. New requirements may drive you to make changes to your APIs. Advancements in technology are also a contributor to changes to APIs. Handling these changes in a way to minimize the impact on the clients is the art of versioning .
Once you publish a REST API, developers start using it in their client app as per what is defined in the contract. Developers write software that relies on the API contract. So whenever there is a change to the API, there is the potential to break the client software that relies on ...
