Let’s understand what an API is

Mikel
7 min readApr 21, 2019
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What is REST?

REST, REpresentational State Transfer, is a type of web development architecture that is fully supported by the HTTP standard.

REST allows us to create services and applications that can be used by any device or client that understands HTTP, so it is incredibly simpler and more conventional than other alternatives that have been used in the last ten years as…

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