REST API & HTTP Requests

API(messenger)

- Application Programming Interface

- contracted provided by one pirce of software to another

- Structured request and response

- API endpoints: URL

REST(HTTP Request to format that message)

- Representational State Transfer

- architecture style for designing networked applications

- relies on stateless, client-server protocol, almost always HTTP

Http Requests

- GET: retrieve data from a specified resource

- POST: submit data to be processed to a specified resource

- PUT: update a specified resource

- DELETE: delete a specified resource