REST API Design Principles and Best Practices
REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems first introduced in Roy Fielding’s 2000 doctoral dissertation “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” at UC Irvine. Fielding, one of the principal authors of the HTTP protocol, analyzed the success factors of the web and systematized them into architectural principles. REST has become the de facto standard for modern web API design and is widely used for communication between various distributed systems including microservice architectures, mobile applications, and Single Page Applications (SPAs). ...