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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition
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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition

by Valentin Bojinov
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
178 pages
3h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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REST fundamentals

It actually happened back in 1999, when a request for comments was submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF; http://www.ietf.org/) via RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol-HTTP/1.1. One of its authors, Roy Fielding, later defined a set of principles built around the HTTP and URI standards. This gave birth to REST as we know it today.

These definitions were given in https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation.pdf in the fifth chapter, Representational State Transfer (REST), of Fielding's dissertation called Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-Based Software Architectures. The dissertation is still available at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm ...
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