API

API stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a way for computer programs to communicate with each other.

They follow a documented protocol in how to structure the request and responses. 1

REST API, also known as Representational State Transfer, defines a set of functions to access server data using HTTP verbs. 2 3 - POST: Create a new resource into the collection of resources on the server - GET: Retrieve resources from the server - PUT: Update the existing resource on the server - the full resource - PATCH: Update the existing resource on the server - portion of resource - DELETE: Delete the resources from the server

  1. https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/api/ ↩

  2. https://www.restapitutorial.com/lessons/httpmethods.html ↩

  3. https://dev.to/qbentil/http-methods-get-post-put-patch-delete-1fhi ↩