In the meantime, the not-really-RESTful Web APIs have taken over the web. In the ProgrammableWeb index there are currently 12,199 APIs and counting, with over 6,000 being categorized as “RESTful”.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, is more open in how it is coded, and is the more common type of API. You’ll often see them described as RESTful APIs too.

RESTful APIs can be designed with many different endpoints that return different types of data. However, accessing multiple endpoints with a REST API requires multiple calls, which can slow down ...

REST API URL naming conventions The following list represents the standard set of REST API naming conventions and best practices that software architects should follow when they develop and design ...

Changes to a RESTful API are inevitable. However, unless you adhere to the best practices and ensure that the API is backward compatible, your changes can break the API’s compatibility with ...

REST was introduced as a lightweight solution to address the burdens of SOAP. However, it turns out that a RESTful API needs a schema to define the contract and make it more discoverable.

REST APIs are the most common APIs used across the web. The challenge is that conventional methods to explore API behavior create a lot of friction.

The developer might mash up the Google Maps API with a database API to check delivery addresses and a traffic API to generate the fastest route to each destination. APIs mean using less code to create ...

OpenAPI Spring Boot tools As a developer, the ability to use Swagger to test Spring Boot APIs in the browser without having to install an additional tool makes my life significantly easier. However, ...

What’s happened is you created a JavaScript program that used the browser API (specifically, the fetch API), to issue an HTTP call against the server that lives at https://the-one-api.dev.