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Understanding REST api

Adarsh Pandya on December 16, 2020

Hey Developers, Today i'm gonna be teaching you how to make REST ful APIs using node js and express. (part 1 of 2) what is REST api (according to ...
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Tobias Nickel

do you know my favorite REST API? it is the json-server. A rest API for a json file database. it is great for prototyping

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Adarsh Pandya

Seems interesting

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Vlastimil Pospichal

(GET,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE) is not enough. You can use those methods much more. It is also very interesting to use Content-Type headers, which can be used to specify the desired output format.

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Adarsh Pandya

You're 100% right , but we have to abstract it since it's for beginners :)

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Mohammed Farmaan. • Edited

Thanks for such a great explanation bro. All these days I thought REST is a technology and I gotta learn it.😅 And your other articles are also well explained. Keep up the good work.

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Brenda Michelle

Great explanation thank you!

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Adarsh Pandya

Welcome :)

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Beeblebrox

Nice intro to REST..
It would be great to have similar article on HTTPS / SSL

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Adarsh Pandya

Sure :)

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Dimitris Chitas

Nice explanation!

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Adarsh Pandya

Thank you buddy:)