REST FRAMEWORK WEB DEVELOPMENT
A RESTful API is an application program interface ( API ) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. A RESTful API -- also referred to as a RESTful web service or REST API -- is based on representational state transfer ( REST ) technology, an architectural style and approach to communications often used in web services development. REST technology is generally preferred to the more robust Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) technology because REST leverages less bandwidth , making it more suitable for internet usage. An API for a website is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each another . The API spells out the proper way for a developer to write a program requesting services from an operating system or other application. This video by Kevin Babcock details RESTful API design and related HTTP concepts. The REST used by browsers can be thought of as the language of the internet. With cloud use on th...