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What does REST stand for?

  • REST stands for Representational State Transfer. (It is sometimes spelled “ReST”.) It relies on a stateless, client- server, cacheable communications protocol – and in virtually all cases, the HTTP protocol is used. REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications.

    REST APIs are designed around a _

  • around resources, which are any kind of object, data.

    What are the most common HTTP verbs?

  • GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. ## What should the URIs be based on?
  • hould be based on the collection of data ## What status code does a successful GET request return?
  • code 200 or ‘ok’ ## What status code does an unsuccessful GET request return?
  • code 404 or ‘not found’