Design and Build Great Web APIs

What’s Next?

In this chapter, we covered the basics of HTTP, reviewed common practices for creating services for the web, and reviewed the REST style for implementing services over HTTP. Essentially, you learned that HTTP is a standardized protocol that all web servers and clients use in order to ensure they can connect and share data with each other. This protocol has existed for over thirty years and has continued to work even through several changes. That’s a goal we’ll try to live up to when we create our APIs too.

We also covered the idea of the World Wide Web, sometimes called WWW or just the web. Although not an actual protocol like HTTP, the practices of the web—the use of HTML for data and actions, JavaScript for extending functionality, ...