Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Discussing RESTful services

REST stands for representational state transfer. It is an architectural style that defines a set of guidelines for building web services.

What is an architectural style? It's nothing but a concept with predefined principles. We will talk about these principles in a moment. When you follow REST, you are actually implementing the principles that are the building blocks of REST in your application.

However, the implementation of REST will definitely differ from developer to developer. There is no fixed implementation style. Don't get confused with architectural patterns, which are not concepts but the actual implementations. MVC is an architectural pattern as it has a fixed structure that defines how the components ...