What is API and REST API Means?

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Nowadays, it plays an important role in Web Applications because it is an easy and efficient medium to connect the client system to the servers.

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API stands for Application Programming Interface, a software that allows two applications to communicate or interact with each other over the internet through various devices,

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The most common example of API is Instagram, Facebook, Online Booking systems, Amazon, Flipkart, and so on.

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As a human, we need a language to communicate with others. Hence in Web applications, it requires some rules to send and receive the data to and fro.

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The application which is used the HTTP protocol for request-and-response is known as Web Services.

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1. Public 2. Private

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REST stands for “Representational State Transfer”, we should say that it is a set of rules that developers use to send or received the data through HTTP protocol.

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REST is an architectural style, not a standard protocol. That’s why REST APIs are sometimes called RESTful APIs.

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Each URL is called a request while the data sent back to you is called a response.

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What is API and REST API Means?

Nowadays, it plays an important role in Web Applications because it is an easy and efficient medium to connect the client system to the servers.

API stands for Application Programming Interface, a software that allows two applications to communicate or interact with each other over the internet through various devices,

What is an API?

The most common example of API is Instagram, Facebook, Online Booking systems, Amazon, Flipkart, and so on.

Example

As a human, we need a language to communicate with others. Hence in Web applications, it requires some rules to send and receive the data to and fro.

How do Web APPS communicate