Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Beginning with REST

So far, we have looked at ROA and a set of guidelines, such as statelessness, resources, addressability, uniform resources, and so on. Those guidelines are the fundamental implementation of REST architecture. As this book is all about RESTful patterns, we are going to explore more about the REST architectural style in this section.

The REST concepts were submitted as a PhD dissertation by Roy Fielding. The fundamental principle of REST is to use the HTTP protocol for data communication (between distributed hypermedia systems), and it revolves around the concept of resources where each and every component considered as a resource, and those resources are accessed by the common interfaces using HTTP methods:

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