class301-07.md

REST

Section Source

• Roy Fielding - helped write the first web servers, and his name is on the specification for the HTTP protocal that is used to get pages from servers to browsers.
• HTTP - is able to describe the location of something anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world

REST:

• Architecture the web is build on that provides a definition of a resource
• APIs allow machines to use the web like people do
• Built on applying verbs to nouns
  • GET retreives resources from the web (websites, images, text, video, etc)
  • POST allows one system to add to another system
  • PUT replace something in another system
  • PATCH partial update

APIs

• GeoCoding API Yes
• Weather Bit API Yes
• Yelp API Yes
• Movie DB API Yes

Bookmark/Skim

• Google Perfect Teams
• Reviewed in Code 201

Things I want to know more about:

• TBD