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RESTful API Building
An Application Programming Interface (API) can be summarized as a developer’s interface with an application. Just as end users have a visible frontend user interface with which they can work on and talk to the application, developers also need an interface to it. Representational State Transfer (REST) is not a protocol or a standard. It is just a software architectural style or a set of suggestions defined for writing applications, the aim of which is to simplify the interfaces within and without the application. When web service APIs are written in a way that adheres to the REST definitions, then they are known as RESTful APIs. Being RESTful keeps the API decoupled from the internal application details. This results in ...
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