RESTful API , meaning and references

Question

need more explanation hence created this post, looks like it's very important to know this and work on projects that deploy RESTful characteristics.
read on many blogs that it will definitely help for your interviews and portfolio.
so let's dig deeper into this topic

Answer 1

Links provided by David Carroll

- https://www.sitepoint.com/developers-rest-api/

If you prefer videos with some good visuals and examples, check these out:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVTAB8Z2VmA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YcW25PHnAA
- https://www.lynda.com/WordPress-tutorials/What-RESTful-APIs-JSON/572168/596804-4.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LooL6_chvN4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iyc8zjwtXA

Answer 2

this is what I got to know,
*REST is "representational state transfer" a style of web architecture with many rules or constraints
* whereas RESTful API means it is conforming to REST constraints
*few REST constraints are
1.It helps create independent client and server implementation in any language without bothering each other during replacement of either client or server
2.stateless server, i.e. client needs to maintain session info
3.cacheable clients

Answer 3

by Calvin
If you know Javascript and want to fully understand how RestApi works, try to setup Rest api in Node Js using Express. Use Chrome extension, Postman to test out the CRUD operations of RestApi you build.

It's not too complicated, you can find many tutorials from YouTube.