April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
17h 48m
English
CHAPTER 21
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Services for REST
In this chapter, I show you how AngularJS supports working with RESTful web services. Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of API that operates over HTTP requests, which I introduced in Chapter 3. The requested URL identifies the data to be operated on, and the HTTP method identifies the operation that is to be performed.
REST is a style of API rather than a formal specification, and there is a lot of debate and disagreement about what is and isn’t RESTful, a term used to indicate an API that follows the REST style. AngularJS is pretty flexible about how RESTful web services are consumed, and I show you ...
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