Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Summary

REST defines how to use the uniform interface through additional constraints, how to identify resources, how to manipulate resources through representations, and how to include metadata that makes messages self-describing.

The web is built on HTTP’s uniform interface, and the focus is on interacting with resources and their representations. REST isn’t tied to any specific platform or technology; the web is the only major platform that fully embodies REST. The basic style of the architecture of RESTful web services is client–server.

Here, the client requests a resource and the server processes and responds to the requested resource. The response of the server is user-based and platform-independent. The separation of concerns is the ...