RESTful API basics

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It is a way to structure your API over HTTP.
REST stands for “Representational State Transfer”.
It has 5 major parts:

Could be something like

/users/:username/repos
/users/:username/repos/:repo
/users/:username/repos?sort=date&order=asc

/users/:username/repos

/users/:username/repos/:repo

/users/:username/repos?sort=date&order=asc

Are used for content types, auth.

Is used for creating/updating entries

200 — ok
401/403 — not auth
404 — not found
5xx — server issue
More on them on the link below.

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